• Smaller notebook computers, now euphemistically called " ultrabooks ", were thinner and smaller than ever.

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  • The bonanza is ultimately due to what is euphemistically called taxpayers largesse, which will only grow in time.

    ECONOMIST: No demographic time bomb

  • Counterinsurgency operations place a premium on different weaponry and tactics than would conflicts with what are now euphemistically called "peer" or "near-peer" competitors.

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  • But exempting itself from losses in the event of what is euphemistically called "official-sector involvement, " or OSI, may not be that easy for the fund.

    WSJ: Euro-Zone Bailouts Leave Public Creditors at a Loss

  • It means around the country, there are tens of thousands of incidents of what is euphemistically called "unrest" every year, and land seizure lie at the heart of many of them.

    BBC: Taking on China's corruption

  • But when it comes to "eve teasing" (as this practice is euphemistically called), I would argue the opposite: It is precisely the stubborn hold of India's prudish culture that has made many Indian men so callow.

    WSJ: India Needs a Sexual Revolution

  • That will be especially true if, as is also predictable, the Israelis are blamed for the outcome for not being willing enough in the face of Palestinian intractability to make what are euphemistically called "painful" moves for peace.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Staticidal zealotry

  • This in turn led, directly and inexorably, to the rollback of the Soviet expansion in the southern latitudes, to the liberation of the captive nations in its hegemony euphemistically called satellites, and, finally, to the dissolution of the USSR itself.

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  • Even the Bush administration has reportedly begun contingency planning to start a draw-down this fall irrespective of the circumstances on the ground in response to an expected domestic political imperative demanding what is euphemistically called a "new strategy" come September.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dunkirk in the desert

  • As it happens, for the better part of a year, we at the Center for Security Policy have spent a fair amount of time trying to teach U.S. Treasury Department and other government "experts" about what is euphemistically called "Islamic banking, " but better known as Shariah-Compliant Finance (SCF).

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  • In what are (sometimes euphemistically) called the developing countries, one year seems to follow the next without any booms or busts, just deadness in the water.

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  • In solitary -- also called "the box" and "the hole" by prisoners, or euphemistically, "segregation" and "special housing" by corrections officials -- inmates have virtually no social contact, except for occasional transactions with guards.

    CNN: No kid should be in solitary confinement

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