Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morals," asserts Michael Hiller, assistant pastor at San Francisco's St. Francis Lutheran and openly homosexual. "It's an issue of justice." It is also a large and continuing problem for ordinary churchgoers, Protestants and Catholics alike, many of whom feel it would be morally wrong to undercut a tenet that Christianity has held with such confidence over so many centuries...
...public life, Denis, as all Britain calls him, is discretion personified. "So long as I keep the lowest possible profile, neither write nor say anything, I avoid getting into trouble," he says. This rigorously observed tenet has helped establish Denis as a model consort and has won him popularity verging on admiration...
Strikes are not technically illegal in the Soviet Union; the Marxist tenet that they are unnecessary in a proletarian paradise has not kept them from happening. Until the Gorbachev era, Communist rulers used bullets or gifts of consumer goods to quell unruly workers. But under the impact of perestroika and glasnost, work stoppages have become part of the economic landscape...
...Undergraduate Council's call to reinstate ROTC on campus violates every tenet of its anti-discrimination policy. Should Harvard University decide to allow ROTC back on campus, it will violate its own anti-discrimination policy as well. Inconveniencing a Harvard student with traveling to MIT--in council terms, known as "discrimination against the economically disadvantaged"--justifies this flagrant disrespect for all minority groups on campus...
...shoulder, about as disparate as a pair could be. The business-suited pragmatist and the fatigue-clad revolutionary. Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro. New thinking and old orthodoxy. Castro talked the most, but Gorbachev had the last word. He coolly rejected Castro's policy of exporting revolution, a central tenet of the Cuban leader's 30-year rule. Until a very few years ago, Moscow's leaders too preached worldwide support for wars of national liberation. But Gorbachev's words in Havana seemed intended to reinforce his professed determination to replace such vaporous ideology with solidly grounded pragmatism -- obtaining influence...