Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouths of bureaucrats, language is too often used to obfuscate rather than communicate. But not with impunity. For the past six years, the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Public Doublespeak has presented a "dishonorable mention" to a particularly offensive official utterance. Last week the committee singled out the Pentagon for terming the neutron bomb, which kills every living creature within its reach but leaves physical structures unharmed, "a radiation enhancement weapon." The Defense Department did not send a representative to accept the award, but it did designate Army Colonel Jack Munsey as "doublespeak person" to respond...
...breaks for mills investing in antipollution equipment. This proposal would be included in the tax plan that Carter will send to Congress next year and would apply to all heavy industry. But the stiff cost of installing air-and water-purifying equipment required by the Government has been a particular sore point to steelmen...
There is an increased likelihood that some element of our culture will survive. It also allows people to find a particular niche which is suitable to their cultural and genetic make-up," he said...
Turner continued, "Attempts to regulate the private lives of our citizens in a manner discriminatory to any particular group, profession or segment of society poses serious risks," and said Harvard should not "single out any group, despite what may be transient enthusiasm for doing...
...than an encouraging column. But it is time that American supporters of Ho Chi Minh and his successors gave up the delusion that the barbaric tyranny under which all Vietnam now groans, and which the ill-managed American effort bravely tried to spare the south, is tempered by any particular humanity. James W. Muller...