Word: orwellian
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When Harvard scientists said they would create human embryos for use in stem-cell studies, Romney blasted the plan as “Orwellian in scope.” And when Harvard’s Kennedy School invited former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to speak there Sept. 10, Romney called that move “a disgrace to the memory of all Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of extremists...
...more obtrusive punishments on people who have not been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions in the name of health and safety...
...Thursday, Aug. 31, Gov. W. Mitt Romney took his latest jab at Harvard’s stem cells program, calling it “Orwellian in scope” and akin to the movie “The Matrix...
...believe it crosses a very bright line to take sperm and eggs in the laboratory and start creating human life...It is Orwellian in scope,” he said in remarks at Lesley University, a block north of the Science Center, according to The Associated Press. “In laboratories, you could have trays of new embryos being created. It’s almost like the movie, ‘The Matrix...
...monitoring trend could get even more Orwellian. In Thompson v. Johnson County Community College in Oklahoma, the court held that employees had no expectation of privacy in a locker room because the room had pipes that required occasional maintenance. (The need to service the pipes was enough for the court to let the employer use video surveillance.) The wave of the future seems to be radio-frequency identification, a transmitter smaller than a dime that can be embedded in anything from ID cards to key fobs to hospital bracelets (to safeguard newborns, for instance). Now consider Compliance Control's HyGenius...