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...this case, the corporation is Vail Resorts, which operates eight hotels, 82 restaurants and many other businesses in Vail and nearby communities. Just before the fires, the company won a bitter court battle to begin Category III, an Orwellian-sounding ski development on what is now 885 virgin acres of mountain forest. Environmentalists oppose the expansion because they think it will chase away the few remaining lynxes believed to be on the land, one of the species' last known habitats. Workers had begun clearing trees for Category III just days before the fires...
...this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...
...affirmative action and trumpeted by intellectuals. It produces and artificial, superficial diversity. It demeans blacks and Hispanics by saying that the essence of their being is their skin color, that the diversity they bring is literally skin deep. It treats them as an undifferentiated and homogeneous mass, characterized by Orwellian groupthink of the sort that post-war intellectuals said would never exist and that present-day intellectuals seem all too eager to abet...
What President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky may or may not have done does not interest me in the least [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 2]. The Orwellian qualities and nightmarish implications of the investigation and the media coverage make me sick. An independent counsel is allowed to spend years and more than $30 million of the taxpayers' money and use underhanded methods like taping close friends. Yet all this results in something that is not proved and is very, very private. Then the media jump on the story as if it were the start of World...
Although critics fear potential Orwellian implications, Malin cautions that the program is still in its infancy...