Word: orwellianisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threat to society. Their conviction was not based on their own personal actions, but on their association with others who hold the similar views and have committed acts of violence as a result of those views. This type of ruling seems much more congruous with the actions of an Orwellian-type totalitarian state than with the proper proceedings of the American judicial system...
...genetically predisposed to commit? Is it possible to fix such miswired genes, and if so, should you try? The possibility of mucking about with such fundamental genetic coding gives a lot of people existential shivers--and it should. "This is the kind of technology that would flourish in an Orwellian society," says Bereano...
...cannot believe the law should ever sanction euthanasia--the very word sounds sinister to me, an Orwellian corruption. The trouble is, I also like the libertarian thought that a person damn well has a right to die when he wants to. The solution I propose to Cathy is this: what we already have--a quiet, informal, private routine in which families and physicians agree, without fuss and in an unofficial zone below the purview of the law, to withhold further treatment, to cut off nourishment, to shut down the IV, even to administer a little more morphine (a gray area...
...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...