His bedrock value, he said, is that being armed means being free.

It's inconsistent with those basic bedrock values this country should be standing for now.

It meant challenging the bedrock values of the place he lives.

But even as we reach out to seize the future, we must not forget the bedrock values of our past.

Microsoft is a threat because it is big and deaf to some of the bedrock values of the American system.

And President Clinton said the measure was "inconsistent with those basic, bedrock values this country should be standing for."

Even so, Mr. Clinton needs to hold firmly to some bedrock values.

But there is another way, one that relies on bedrock American values such as decentralized local initiative, self-help, partnership and private investment.

Asenhat's belief in the bedrock American value of success through education seems absolute.

American voters, to be sure, want more efficient social spending and a return to bedrock values of family and community.