Word: confusionism
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When Congress deregulated the airline industry, it unleashed the powerful forces of competition into a field that had been tightly controlled. For the first time travelers have real choices. They can pick a People Express or a United, a Continental or a Delta. The competition has produced much confusion, and...
After heated protests, however, Hale reconsidered and proposed instead to create an advisory committee of managers and employees to "free the workplace of drugs." In a separate memo to all Capital Cities workers, Murphy acknowledged the "distress and confusion" that had been sparked by the plan to bring in dogs...
The problem stems from an official list of simplified characters, issued in 1977, that was recently abandoned because it caused confusion and was often inaccurate. The government now also advocates greater use of standard spoken Chinese in an effort to "enhance communication within China as a whole," where several hundred...
Amid confusion, reports put the toll as high as 400 dead and 6,000 injured. Scores of stricken people lay outside overcrowded hospitals. Others wandered aimlessly through broken streets covered with shattered glass. Hardest hit were the city's slums, where wood and adobe shanties simply crumbled. Many victims were...
Two odd couplings are at center stage in this still sprightly tale: the long since abandoned marriage of a woman (Uta Hagen) who is fervently modern and a man (Stefan Gierasch) who is scrupulously conformist, and the flirtation between this couple's virginal daughter (Lise Hilboldt) and an amiable young...