Word: relabelling
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...tactic is to simply relabel torture implements that are on the E.U.'s list of banned products. For example, electroshock weapons like stun belts - which are placed around detainees' limbs and emit a shock if they get out of line - are sometimes renamed "stun cuffs," Amnesty says. Another scheme is to sell "dual-use" items, such as leg shackles and stick batons, which are allowed to be exported for policing and security purposes. The trade in dual-use products is meant to be closely monitored, but Amnesty says little is being done to make sure the devices are not being...
...reduce their tax bills. No one is under any moral obligation to pay more taxes than he or she legally owes. (And I hope the lawyer or accountant who figured out how Blackstone could call some of its income a capital gain when calculating its taxes and then relabel the same pile of dough as ordinary income when computing its deductions, as reported last week in the New York Times, got a big, big bonus.) For years, these folks got away with murder. Congratulations. But then, when the sheer size of their incomes draws unwanted attention, instead of a sheepish...
...alarms disturbing is suffering from this so-called condition. With all due respect, I advise her to get out of the house more often. For thousands of years, humans have naturally developed both positive and negative responses to varied stimuli. I hope Heller will revisit her theory and relabel this disorder as a perfectly normal (PN) condition. Mike Randall Oakville...
...Hollywood, still fearful of actual musicals, is coming up with new ways to relabel them. Q-Tip is working on a hip-hop musical called "Prison Song." But Tinseltown can't hide the truth. "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," was a musical. Sorry to burst your bubble...
...have three boxes. One has blue balls, another has red balls and the third has both blue balls and red balls. They are all labeled incorrectly with the labels "blue," "red" and "mixed." You have one opportunity to pick a ball from any box, and then you have to relabel the boxes correctly. Which box do you pick from...
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