Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact Edwards claims a basic tenet of his conservative philosophy is "a realistic view of the Soviet Union," its aims in the world and policies toward America...
...awarded the Order of Lenin after he was traded for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962. KGB anniversaries are occasions for rallies and testimonials. "The competent organs," a common euphemism for the intelligence services, make up a kind of superelite. For years it was a basic tenet of Kremlinological wisdom that the head of the KGB was too much distrusted by his comrades ever to become General Secretary of the party. Yuri Andropov disproved that rule of thumb in 1982. He personified the Soviet obsession with security and reverence for the guardians of security...
Puccio, standing stiffly behind a wooden lectern ten feet from the jury, relentlessly disputed the central tenet of the prosecution's case: that insulin had been used to cause Mrs. Von Bulow's two comas. With increasing vehemence, he punctuated his argument with the phrase "No insulin injection!" as he recapitulated testimony by the defense's medical experts...
...only does Brandt give us a comprehensive and entertaining history of venereal disease in America but he draws valuable comparisons between the hygiene gospel" and current fears of AIDS and herpes. He says, "Contraction of a venereal disease represented a failure of self-control, a central tenet of progressive ideology." This is the same message being offered by the popular media today. Time magazine calls herpes the new scarlet letter and herpes sufferers "unusually dishonest and unusually promiscuous. Professor Brandt shows that even today, we are still getting the same mixed messages about sexuality be a libertine but take...
Most of the Soviet Union's economic and social ills can be traced to one source: the bureaucracy. Therein lies Gorbachev's basic problem. The bureaucracy is the Soviet system, its ubiquity guaranteed by the cardinal socialist tenet of central planning. Born in the mists of Russia's czarist past, rooted firmly in the totalitarian present, this permanent government has so far survived all attempts, most half-hearted, at reform...