Word: orwellianisms
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...there is a clue to the future of Middle East peace, it may be in the fresher look that President Hafez Assad's defiant old regime is sporting these days. Almost gone are the giant Orwellian portraits of the Syrian leader that once seemed to loom over every traffic intersection. Instead, less threatening pictures of Assad's son and heir apparent Bashar, 34, decorate billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast. The favorite depicts Assad in an almost holy trinity with Bashar and Basil, Assad's idealized eldest boy and chosen successor until his car-crash...
...barrage of onscreen ads just to get a free computer? Or submit to all sorts of prying personal questions, down to your income? Next thing you know, these "free" computers might be coming with built-in video cameras to monitor your off-line activities. It would be an Orwellian nightmare, downright evil...
...very Orwellian feel for us in the library," said Geoffrey Carens, a library assistant and one of the Widener employees' representatives to the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical workers (HUCTW). Library workers, who say they are kept largely separate from those on the construction site, show concern that contractors won't speak out against the cameras for fear of losing their jobs...
...very Orwellian feel for us in the library," said Geoffrey Carens, a library assistant and one of the Widener employees' representatives to the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical workers (HUCTW...
Victory, of course, is in the eye of the beholder ?- or the spin doctor. But there?s something Orwellian about Belgrade seeing triumph in an agreement that surrenders a prized province to the control of a United Nations political administration and a NATO-dominated peacekeeping force. Particularly after President Milosevic made his countrymen suffer thousands of casualties and tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure damage as the price for this "victorious" dismemberment of their country...