The epithet is potent because many current French phobias—capitalism, globalisation, liberalism—are associated with America.

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But his story makes one wonder if honest enterprise really needs a new epithet to ennoble it.

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The epithet "Park Avenue cubists"was eventually pinned on Frelinghuysen, Morris and two of their contemporaries and fellow artists-- Charles G.

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The only way to avoid the epithet is to be a profligate spender and promiscuous warmonger who routinely violates the Constitution.

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However, IRS employees continue to use the epithet in their case narratives.

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However, IRS employees still to use the epithet in their case narratives.

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Lee earned him the tag "butcher, " an epithet that took on even more sinister tones given the ghastly losses in the Great War.

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There is, for instance, certainly no suggestion that he is a Nazi—an epithet every bit as unpleasant as the ones he tossed out.

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It's an epithet that would trail him his entire career.

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Consider the millions of pounds of paper that the Federal Reserve will need to afford its easy monetary policy, which today further earned its latest epithet: quantitative easing infinity.

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So, today it is up to each of us to define our own desired epithet, our own desired description, and then to make sure that others see and define us in that way.

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But the real epithet today should be interventionist.

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