Word: taboo
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Encouraged by the triumph of dogma over economic reason on the health care front, the Republicans are taking the battle to taxation. These days, anything goes when you’re cutting taxes, but tax increases are virtually taboo. Even reversing recent cuts is portrayed as supporting high taxes. As Bush told Congress in his State of the Union speech, “The tax reductions you passed are set to expire...Unless you act, Americans face a tax increase.” In the face of the $4 trillion of deficits the Congressional Budget Office projects for the decade...
Indians pride themselves on having one of the world's most open democracies, but an unwritten agreement honored by its media ensures that exposing the love lives of the country's leaders remains taboo. So when the purported sexual peccadilloes of the nation's first?and most important?Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, inspire a new novel, you'd expect Indians to be astonished and appalled. Unless, of course, its author is Khushwant Singh. One of India's oldest and most respected writers, Singh also ranks among its smuttiest, and his compatriots are long used to being astonished and appalled...
...struggles of the small hoopsters during their eight-minute contests usually provides a break from the monotony of other stoppages in play, these respites pale in comparison to the opportunities at the University’s disposal. If even discussion of corporate sponsorship didn’t border on taboo, that...
...panelists agreed that there is a taboo on discussing the United States in terms of imperialism...
...that human embryos had been cloned flew around the world with the speed of sound bites bouncing off satellites ... It was the start of the fiercest scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics...