The job description, as listed on Change.gov, is short, somewhat vague and a mix of traditional chief information officer and CTO duties.
And when there's a cordial as excellent as a vaguely orange-flavored mix of rye and espresso showcased here?
In a month and a bit, when the Games open, we may find that it complicates our cheering obligations, tainting or heightening the mix of vague patriotism and keen commercialism that constitute the Olympic spirit, and make it fun.
The rhetorical flourishes borrowed from Fascist tropes, with their distinctive mix of vague language and unmistakable menace: the virtuous "we" and the unspecified "they," who are trying to take away "our" customs and culture; the "thugs," who protest the leader's vision of America.
Given the mix of vague guidance and expansive aims — to apparently apply the same and/or similar measures to tackle issues as different as terrorist propaganda and copyrighted material — the guidelines have unsurprisingly drawn swift criticism.
Every juice bar's ethos is a mix of vague nutritional science, spiritual hokum, puns, and employees who seem relentlessly enthusiastic about being a part of The Revolution.
It's an editorial mix with vaguely defined parameters, but for me it's all about the candy-coated bullet of the political screeds.
This kind of language communicates a lazy innocence mixed with vague malevolence that gives Hughes's sense of childhood its special character.
Twice in 1998 its ruling coalition a bickering mix of vaguely right-of-centre and supposedly pro-reform Liberals, Peasants, Social Democrats and ethnic Hungarians that took office in late 1996 teetered on the brink of collapse.
