Word: taboo
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...itself into an alliance that can respond rapidly to that threat. It needs fewer tank brigades and more special forces; fewer regional air bases and more long-range aircraft; a leaner command structure with fewer static commanders and more mobile ones. Last May, alliance foreign ministers quietly lifted the taboo on "out of area" tasks; from now on, NATO would, if necessary, meet its enemies outside Europe - but it still lacks the means to do so. NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has been cajoling members to pony up the military hardware needed to put the relevance question to rest...
...ceremony, with Qatari and American VIPs in attendance, made history. Inside a huge tent on the outskirts of Doha, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani arrived with his wife Sheika Mouza, shattering an old taboo against Persian Gulf leaders appearing in public with their spouses. While the emir remained seated, it was his wife who got up and delivered the speech--in English, wearing a loose head scarf that took nothing away from her film-star looks...
When I tell Gomes this, he shakes his head and gives me a sympathetic look. We couldn’t talk about anything, I exclaim with exasperation. Homosexuality, evolution, abortion—all taboo. Emboldened, I defiantly tell Gomes that I’ve also met very religious people who have struck me as being, strictly speaking, bad people. He smiles and leans forward. “Would you be surprised to find out that you aren’t the only one with questions like these?,” Gomes asks. “There are lots of people...
...steel for body panels that reduce weight and thus fuel consumption. As designers explore other uses, recycled beer can handbags can't be far off. - By Kate Noble ADVERTISING A Naked Bid for Attention Break out the champagne, get out the party lights, strike up the band - the last taboo has finally been broken. Yves Saint Laurent, under creative director Tom Ford, has produced the world's first advertisement with full-frontal male nudity. The bits in question belong not to Ford but to former martial arts champion Samuel de Cubber. Ford calls it a "very academic nude," and says...
...professors—one of math, the other of statistics—who were also excellent tarot card readers. “They would never come out and say it,” he says, “because there’s something against it, like a taboo.” Doubts notwithstanding, Mingwei sees the skill of the seer as essentially creative, “coming from the same source as art and dance and music and literature...