Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those who know of him only as a grand bogey, a synonym for some terror that may go bump in the Western night, hardly know him at all. He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie. Yet the very name that is now so often invoked, vaguely and in vain, is a fiction...
Orwell devoted the rest of his life to arresting this process, against formidable odds. He took on not only Nazis and Stalinists and all advocates of the expedient lie but the solipsism of much modern philosophy and literature. Theories that reality is simply the spider web of word spinners left him aghast; that way lay the dictatorship of the speaker and, ultimately, the abstract, ominous slogans of Nineteen Eighty-Four: WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH...
...doing. The government's attempts to keep its operations secret have created situations such that informed journalists know more about what happens in the government than the government itself. It was sad to discover that when journalists asked spokesman Larry Speakes about the Grenada invasion, he was forced to lie, not knowing that the invasion was at that moment taking place. One official in the administration's press office found the arrangement so unpleasant that he resigned...
...ones of the protection of national security interests now lies in the court of the government, not in that of the press. If the government reverses its policy and makes a profound effort to cooperate with the press, then, and only then, can the government expect the country to respond with trust. But the government has broken that trust and placed the press in a position of conducting an all-out war to accurately inform the country. It is up to the administration, through careful cooperation with the press to keep national security interests intact. Otherwise, the best...
...entry into the computer field symbolizes the company's gradual break since the late 1950s with its research-oriented beginnings. BBN now divides its financial statements into two halves: research and consulting, and computer and communications products. The future profits clearly lie within the latter sales-oriented sector, which has grown much quicker than its research counterpart in the last several years...