But the movement for reform has only gathered pace after the sudden growth of enjo kosai (compensated dating), a polite expression for schoolgirl prostitution, which has got seriously out of hand with the arrival of cheap mobile telephones, coupled with the economic recession.
Then central banks resorted to quantitative easing (QE), a polite term for the creation of money.
The polite term for the asset class we have in mind is floating-rate loans.
The polite term for it is hegemony, but in reality, as Mr Boot says, it is Globocop.
Best of all, asking the public to sponsor a valve is far more interesting than a polite request for donations.
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And what compounds the problem is the understandable reluctance of undocumented workers the polite term for illegal immigrants to complain, even though federal agencies exist to protect all workers, legal or not.
Income isn't considered polite conversation for most Americans.
Consequently it became socially unacceptable in polite circles for Israelis to admit that Arafat and the Palestinians were less than devoted to the notion of peaceful coexistence with Israel or that Netanyahu was right not to give up the store.
Since there is no polite way for Israel to reject this effective US bid to subvert its capacity to make independent decisions, the most urgent dilemma the Netanyahu government must solve is how to handle Mitchell's new supreme headquarters in Jerusalem.
In a world where Federal Reserve zero-interest-rate policy has made it impossible to earn any real yield the 10-year Treasury rate is well below 2% on standard-issue bonds, the income payout on high yield bonds (the polite term for junk) is proving too hard to resist.
Through it we learn that blaming the Jews and the Jewish state for their enemies' behavior is what passes for polite conversation among Western elites today.
Murray would not be polite and wait for his time.
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And any man who thinks he can persuade New Yorkers to be polite does not want for ambition.
She's also grown used to getting comments from people she describes, clearly searching for a polite way to put it, as "not wholly rational".
Instead, it seems, he opts for the polite and caring attitude.
Michael Dell is acting selfish, to be polite, looking out for himself only while putting the screws to those who have believed and stood by him board meeting after board meeting.
The call for effective, polite, and spot-on service will only increase.
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None of these countries has a reputation for comfortable cells and polite jailers.
Others remember an efficient administrator (admittedly, a rare and valuable species in Russia), always polite, but with no feel for bigger questions.
Until September, the government's policy was to politely delay as long as possible its ultimate polite refusal to accept US demands for more concessions to Palestinians.
At the Cracker Barrel restaurant, the hostess knows him as the polite man in pajamas who asks for a corner table, where he can keep a lookout.
She likes the fact that the Chinese are clean and polite and feels sorry for the ordinary Chinese vendors in the local street-market who seem to be working under the sway of a rich and powerful compatriot.
Not for O'Neill the overly polite approach taken by Robert Rubin in his recent memoir, In an Uncertain World.
Everybody showed up on time for rehearsal and everybody was very polite.
But the advice holds true for any gender: Just be polite.
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It also highlighted an offer letter he wrote to Austrian actor Oskar Werner for the title role in the film and a "very polite hand-written inability letter" from Audrey Hepburn, in which she said she had decided not to work for a while, but asked if he would consider her "again sometime".
For that call, I received a polite cold shoulder from the other panelists who were making those year-end predictions.
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Remain professional and polite, but call it to her attention by asking for more freedom.
At the end of the first womenswear show that September afternoon, primarily held for the press, Sander tellingly received a polite, respectful applause.
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