Word: oxymoron
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Best feminist in America?!" said Eve Ensler, at her characteristic verbal 98 m.p.h. "Not only an oxymoron, but so patriarchal, even as a concept!" It is, isn't it? She explains, "Feminism to me is the inclusion and empowerment of everyone. Being the best feminist is like being the best vagina. What would that...
...about the McVeigh case document foul-up is that it took so long for the bureau?s file management woes to surface. Ever since the early 1980s, when the bureau began its transition from paper to an automated computer system, agents have mocked the records management division as an oxymoron, like "military intelligence...
None of which suggests that things will be easy for Daschle, who understands better than almost anyone else that Senate leadership is an oxymoron. His new job will be the second hardest in Washington. "It's still the same 100 people. You still have the close division of parties and philosophies, so I don't think anything becomes easier," he told TIME. "The only thing that radically changes is who sets the agenda...
...federal agencies to speed up the approval of permits to build power plants and the opening of land to development; evaluate and remove unnecessary impediments to oil and gas exploration "with full public consultation"; write up incentives for "environmentally sound offshore oil and gas development" (no doubt an oxymoron in greener parts of Washington); and the construction of pipelines and electricity transmission networks...
...dedicated a lot of my life to the proposition that people need to be paid a living wage," he said. "The notion of a working poor ought to be an oxymoron in America...