Word: orwellianisms
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Hence, when the first night of the ABC blackout separated viewers from Regis, TW was cooked. Worse still, the words that the company emblazoned on the blank screen that normally would have been carrying ABC programming was a piece of Orwellian newspeak that suggested precisely the opposite of what it said: "Disney Has Taken ABC Away from...
Reeling from the recent election commission debacle and the ill-fated motion to remove its vice president, the Undergraduate Council seems to have abandoned democracy in favor of Orwellian social conformity. Economics concentrators beware: the words "rational choice theory" will have to be said in a hushed whisper and talk of self-interest will become taboo. And while there are no five-year plans yet, there is a five-day one: Spirit Week...
...yelping over firms getting too big to fail is nothing compared with the wailings of privacy activists. They fear that companies engaging in a broad range of financial services will have carte blanche to, say, check bank records before granting health insurance. "This will legalize unprecedented and Orwellian surveillance of the daily lives of bank customers," asserts the U.S. Public Interest Research Group in Washington, one of many consumer groups demanding that Congress kill--or Clinton veto--the bill. The industry says this is all overblown, and lawmakers behind the bill note that specific points in the legislation require full...
...talking toilets and wired toothbrushes sound more like an Orwellian nightmare than a dream come true, you might want to skip the rest of this story. But can you really afford not to read...
...some failures of the act and its enforcement, I feel like we may be living under the Orwellian stance that all pigs are equal, but some are more equal than others," she said...