Word: taboos
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Carter has been criticized unduly for the way he has revised the vocabulary of the dispute. Israelis and their supporters in the U.S. have been especially incensed by his repeated use of the phrase "legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." Carter chose not to accept the standing taboo on the term, which, as used by many Arabs, is a code word for the creation of an independent Palestinian state bent on the destruction of Israel. He recognized that it was sad testimony to the rarefied and hopeless level of the Middle East debate if he were prohibited from saying that...
Germany, whose businessmen are rapidly becoming enthusiastic investors in the U.S. For years a kind of national taboo in Germany against "exporting jobs" limited U.S. ventures to capital-intensive firms like chemical-making Bayer or Hoechst. Now a conviction is spreading that, as one leading German banker put it, "our domestic market is saturated, and our population is overaged and shrinking. It's just prudent business that if you have a market, your production should follow." With that argument, Volkswagen's boss, Toni Schmucker, persuaded German unions and political leaders that an American plant was vital...
...recently kept its doors tightly shut to journalists and news photographers. It tried to be almost as invisible in Washington as overseas. Says Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who reported part of our story and who has also worked in Eastern Europe and Moscow: "Even inside the embassies, it was taboo to mention...
...recruitment program with helping Harvard adapt to the post-World War II generation of students. "You've just got to have a varied student body, and that includes athletes, if you're going to continue to attract the right kind of students, he says. As a result, the ancient taboo against recruiting in any form does not blind the admissions office to the practical needs of the athletic staff...
...Cuba-bound traveler: "Hey, going to Havana? Pick me up a couple of boxes of Montecristos." But lately many Americans returning to the U.S. from points outside Cuba laden with Havana's best have been rudely awakened by customs inspectors to the fact that their purchases are still taboo...