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Explore the people, ideas, and events that shape our culture with SubstanceTV, a DVD videomagazine featuring original content, plus short films, documentaries, music videos, and more. Only $14.95 for a one-year, 10-issue subscription. Subscribe by Oct. 1, 2001 and you could win a Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX-certified computer speaker system. Click for details or to subscribe: http://www.substance.tv/?xpr=dictioncom <A HREF="http://www.substance.tv/?xpr=dictioncom"<AOL users click here</A< \----------------------------------------------------------------/ Word of the Day for Saturday October 27, 2001: tenet \TEN-it\, noun: Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true. . .. the tenet that all men are created equal and seen as such by the eyes of God. --Kaye Gibbons, [1]On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon This kind of tolerance and receptivity is itself a cardinal tenet of Enlightenment thought. --Gary B. Nash, [2]History on Trial Since the 1950s, the central tenet of US foreign policy and security strategy had been to "contain" the Soviet Union and communist domination and influence. --George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, [3]A World Transformed The central tenet of whig theory was the inevitability of progress. --William L. Bird, Jr., [4]Better Living _________________________________________________________ Tenet comes from Latin tenet "he holds" (something as true), from tenere, "to hold." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380732149/lexico 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679767509/lexico 3. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679752595/lexico 4. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810115859/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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