Rhetoric from the New York protests became a model for how to oppose school desegregation without using overtly racist language, said Delmont".Busing" became a catch-all, euphemistic term for a complicated resistance to racially mixed schools.
In this instance, I let the comedian himself have the last word: " 'My considered opinion of Nixon versus Kennedy is that neither can win.' " The picnic-table crisis came along toward the end of my second year as a New Yorker staff writer (a euphemistic term that means unsalaried freelance close to the magazine).
Despite what the bill's supporters say, AOT is not a "community-based alternative" to incarceration and institutionalization. AOT is a euphemistic term used to describe involuntary outpatient commitment ordered by a judge, with the threat of involuntary inpatient hospitalization for those who do not comply with their treatment orders.
In January 2016, Pearson announced that it would be cutting 4,000 jobs (roughly ten percent of its workforce) in a the second "restructuring" (a euphemistic term that never means a company is doing well) under its current CEO, John Fallon.
When a product has been passed on to consumers without labeling, the manufacturer can hardly complain when its own euphemistic term for it, lean finely textured beef — a name previously known only to beef industry insiders — is not widely used by the public.
She has said her agency will devote as much attention to preparing for natural disasters as for "man-caused disasters," her euphemistic term for terrorism.
"We regard the case shown on TV as outsourcing," he said, bluntly declining to use more euphemistic terms for the longstanding practice of sending unnecessary workers to affiliates.
The use of so-called independent contractors (or "associates" or other euphemistic terms for freelancers) has spread across all sectors of the economy.
"Of course, they all have euphemistic terms, "For Seniors" or "For Prosperity," or whatever it is, but really it's just cover," she said.
