Are you prepared to state that in public, in your column, without hedging or using weasel words?

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Let's hope these aren't weasel words, whereby we turn a blind eye to other nations' supplying the funds.

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Congress is anxious about this too, but uses weasel words that are likely to allow the deal to go forward.

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Many business communicators lard up their speeches with jargon and weasel words.

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Avoid mind-numbing vague generalities and weasel words typical of management speak today.

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So if Scotland were to become independent, all other things being equal (the ghastly weasel words again), they might either refuse to lend to RBS or charge prohibitively expensive interest rates for doing so.

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But these were weasel words.

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As a result, weasel-words can destroy the effectiveness of an immunity or safe harbor.

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