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February 2004, Week 4

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Euphemisms for the New Age

Wardrobe malfunction - anyone care to guess?

Disposable mucus recovery system - Kleenex

Thermal Therapy - a bag of ice

Oral Adminstration Fee - what they charge for handing you a pill

Facility and cost rationalization - firing someone

Dehiring - firing someone

Nornal unvoluntary attrition - firing again

Negative employee retention - firing again

Right sizing - is there a common theme

Biological changes over time - evolution

Temporary steel safeguard measures - tariffs

Healthy forest - logging

Earned Legalizagion - amnesty for illegal immigrants

Depopulate the bull calf - what Agriculture department call the destorying the cows due to the mad cow disease

Negatively retained the cows - ditto

Placed the cows on permanent furlough - ditto

The deposed former president - what the BBC tells is staff to use when referring to Saddan, not forner dictator

The former legally selected leader of the Third Reich - sound like Hitle to me

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