Word: orwellian
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...smart money says Arafat would be easily reelected, despite considerable hostility among his own constituents to the corruption and ineptitude of his regime. Moreover, the suggestion that the only thing standing between the Palestinians and their freedom is Yasser Arafat is taken, in the Arab world, as an Orwellian attempt to distract attention from the reluctance of the Bush administration to restrain Ariel Sharon's creeping annexation of an ever-growing portion of the West Bank...
...says was inspired by George Orwell’s 1984, but which Dershowitz, confounded by his massive borrowings from Peters, not once but twice credits directly to Orwell (“George Orwell’s ‘turnspeak,’” “Orwellian turnspeak”). On which pages of 1984 did Dershowitz find “turnspeak?...
...loss of Chick-Fil-A has been accompanied by any number of Orwellian excuses from the masterminds in Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). In their brave new gustatory world, the sandwich we all loved so well has been replaced by “healthier” offerings—options like salads that bear an eerie resemblance to their wilted counterparts in the dining halls. The Greenhouse, once a welcome refuge from the existential despair of HUDS’ ineluctable menu cycle, has been colonized by the enemy...
There may be a dark side to the increasing precision with which marketers can locate and track their quarry. The Orwellian overtones of companies and market researchers' getting together to share vast databases of detailed, individual consumer behavior are hard to deny. Just the names of psychographic tools (Monitor MindBase, LifeMatrix) are enough to get privacy advocates worked up. But researchers say they are only putting to more effective use information that consumers surrendered when they used credit cards, registered on websites or responded to questionnaires. And marketers keep raising the stakes. Personicx, launched by Axciom Corp...
...Jekyll of Burma, he's surrounded by plenty of Mr. Hydes. Than Shwe is still chairman of the powerful military-controlled State Peace and Development Council (SPCD) and commander-in-chief of the armed forces; he ordered Suu Kyi's most recent arrest. More ominous: the Orwellian-sounding position of Secretary One in the SPCD, a top post vacated by Khin Nyunt last week, was given to Soe Win, a known hard-liner. A vital piece of the puzzle is missing, though: Khin Nyunt may be Prime Minister, but if he was forced to resign as head of military intelligence...