But mentioning the goody bags celebs take home as a balm to the recession was a barb bordering on taboo.
The French word for austerity, rigueur, remains taboo on both left and right.
This includes Janet Street-Porter and Jeremy Clarkson, whose "lazy caricatures" reinforce the taboo on the issue, he said.
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Worryingly for King Abdullah, the taboo on directly criticising the palace appears to have been breached, adds our analyst.
The South Africans said that a taboo on discussing the prospect of legalising the trade in the animals must be lifted.
"The taboo on the monarchy is still alive today, " Bix says.
This broke a taboo on the restructuring of debt to multilateral agencies, and set up a framework for systematic debt reduction in return for overdue economic house-cleaning.
The crisis has at least put such questions, once taboo, on the table: the government has given unions and bosses three months to discuss a deal.
If this vision is lost, we end up either considering nature an untouchable taboo or, on the contrary, abusing it.
Playing on back-to-back nights is no longer taboo, and the Canadiens and Senators open their series with back-to-back games on Thursday and Friday of this week.
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"It's almost taboo to have a loan on your personal self, " says Puneet Matta, head of wealth management for Credit Suisse in India.
His daily talk-in on the airwaves, where Irish people first publicly discussed then-taboo subjects like unmarried mothers, homosexuality, divorce and contraception, has run for 26 years.
Washington Attorney General Robert McKenna, cochairman of NAAG's Tobacco Committee, told the audience how an army of lawyers at NAAG and state AG offices keeps tabs on the tobacco industry, from monitoring sales to stepping in to halt taboo marketing tactics such as running cartoon ads in Rolling Stone.
Sex education is considered taboo in many families and only a handful of schools have courses on reproductive health on their curriculum, he says.
Today, the world has been turned on its head to the point where even asking fundamental questions about PLO compliance is taboo.
By presenting clear evidence on the relentless spread of means-testing, the commission has been able to break this taboo as well.
India in turn unilaterally eased restrictions on travel from Pakistan, reduced visa fees and also legalised the import of Pakistani books and periodicals, hitherto taboo.
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