Because each dollar spent from the trust fund would increase the deficit by $1 - a political taboo in the Reagan-Bush era.

But his cartoons were more like comic bombs that exploded political and social taboos.

And so, behind the scenes, the maneuvering is well under way, masked by a political taboo on public talk of succession.

"I resisted getting treatment for almost a year because I was afraid of the political taboo."

Katyn remained a political taboo in communist Poland until the fall of communism in 1989.

Outside of the United States, however, the growing social and political taboo against underage smoking is usually far weaker.

He is known primarily for his contrasting images of couples breaking cultural, social, political or religious taboos.

Is there a taboo, political or otherwise, on the publication of photos of women and men who paid the ultimate price in Iraq?

In France, making billions is often a family business Reform of French public services - a political taboo?

Municipal unions have long considered such approaches political taboos.