Word: transgressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People who talk about the breakdown in the relations between the signifier and the signified and use all sorts of lit-crit terms like "transgress" and "privilege" as a verb...
Tommy's thrives on the tantalizing moment that exists between when it attracts customers through its doors and when it kicks them back out. Step insider and you've centered an arena with its own rules--transgress once and you're back outside...
...very real dangers of having a gun in the home: they cause an overwhelming number of accidents. More than half of the 10,000 people who were killed by handguns in 1983 were shot by relatives, friends, or acquaintances, according to the FBI. If a policeman were to transgress the rights of a homeowner in trying to enforce restrictions, the NRA would react like a whip, further polarizing the two factions and forcing an understanding or a solution back out the door. Since the communities are test cases, vulnerable to attack in a way that federal restrictions would...
...South African regime is in a unique category: its constitution and laws transgress the basic truth that all people are created equal. To that truth--that veritas--this University has always been dedicated...
America has never responded well to justices who appear to have overstepped the bounds of judicial propriety. The nation has developed an elaborate network of standards to limit judges off-the-courts behavior. Those who publicly transgress those unwritten bounds at the very least lose their legitimacy: the less fortunate, like Fortas, lose their jobs. Those monastic codes have led some justices to renounce even activities with the most tenuous ties to politics, like voting. Recent attacks on Chief Justice Warier E. Burger for advocating specific criminal code reforms, are only the most recent expressions of America's historic aversion...