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Most have heard of the euphemistically-named "Fairness Doctrine," which would essentially eliminate traditionalist talk radio.

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  • What remains domestic is increasingly (euphemistically) called a “service economy.” Enter RFID, an exciting and probably inevitable technology promising to increase efficiency in many tasks, but arriving with the potential to eliminate a great many of these service-type jobs, with no obvious replacements. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • Me, myself, Matty Simon, a timedrifter, what is technically referred to on my monthly paycheck as an authentic "chronocircumnavigator" -- euphemistically called a "fugitive" by the one hundred and sixty-three Gentile techno-freaks and computer jockeys-- short-speak for Tempus Fugit -- "Time Flies" -- broken-backed Latin, just a "fugitive." —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 01 - January 1996
  • She died of what I may call, euphemistically, specific laryngitis. —  THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY MAITLAND
  • (It was designed to reduce the budget deficit - euphemistically dubbed the "Public Sector Borrowing Requirement" - partly by squeezing runaway government expenditure and partly by raising taxation.) —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Jawad was subsequently turned over to U.S. forces and transferred to Guantánamo where he has been detained since the beginning of 2003, and where he was also subjected to cruelty and abuse, including through the euphemistically-named —  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
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