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Attack of the Corporate Weasel Words

theodp writes "Does it bother you that churches have a Mission Statement touting their Core Values? That even the CIA has a Vision? In his book Death Sentences: How Clichés, Weasel Words and Management-Speak are Strangling Public Language and in this Newsweek interview, Australian author Don Watson argues it's time to protest the mind-numbing business jargon that infests our schools, churches and political speech. Examples that people have sent to him can be found on Watson's website."

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  1. Already Written by shaunj · · Score: 5, Informative

    Didn't Orwell write this long ago:

    http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html