Word: orwellianisms
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Bush’s doublespeak about Iraq has contributed to a uniquely Orwellian climate that leads only to war. Only in such a climate can the latest polls indicate that nearly 70 percent of Americans believe Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has nukes while even the weapons experts in the Oval Office haven’t dared make that claim. The vice president can warn every day of the imminent threat posed by a “murderous dictator” whose oil pipelines his company made millions repairing only four years ago. The secretary of defense can accuse Iraq...
...drug ads he saw when he was home in St. Louis, Mo. They feature Representative John Shimkus, a Republican from the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, being thanked by the association for his vote for the G.O.P.-sponsored prescription-drug bill. "It's Orwellian," says Gephardt in frustration. "The pharmaceutical lobby writes the bill, passes it, and then they run ads thanking them for passing it." It doesn't help Gephardt's mood any that the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has raised more than twice as much money as its Democratic counterpart...
...news for researchers like Dutch cryptographer Niels Ferguson. Last year, he wrote a paper detailing weaknesses in an Intel encryption system. Fearful of legal liability in the U.S. if a hacker used his work to exploit those flaws, Ferguson chose not to publish. He calls the situation "Orwellian": "Given the problems we have with lack of computer security, we need more research into it, not less." "We're seeing an erosion of the right to practice computer science," says Princeton's Ed Felten, who withheld research on flaws in security technology after the music industry threatened to sue. "You hear...
People who tell you that you can’t criticize their country without being their enemy suffer from delusional paranoia. People who tell you that you can’t criticize your own country and be patriotic at the same time are0 living in an Orwellian nightmare. A good dose of constructive criticism never hurt anybody. In fact, it usually helps...
...Still, the recession does appear to be primed to at least start receding very soon. Another report on manufacturing from the National Association of Purchasing Managers - which now wants to be known as the slightly Orwellian-sounding Institute of Supply Management - announced that the sector's monthly contractions got smaller again in December, pushing the group's index to 48.2 from 44.5 in November. Which is almost 50, which is almost an expansion again. And the "new orders" component for the month, the most forward-looking part of the report, actually rose above that crucial halfway point. And semiconductors...