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  2. From: ghporter@NetXpress.com (Glenn H. Porter)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: C++ and George Orwell
  5. Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 00:30:36 GMT
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  12. David Byrden <Goyra@iol.ie> wrote:
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  15. >     I always think of the ghastly Newspeak and its "doubleplusgood" when 
  16. >I hear that a company was "downsized". Why not "shrunk"?
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  19. >                                  David
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  21.  
  22. Why not just tell the truth: "We fired a bunch of people, regardless
  23. of their contribution to our current or historical success, because
  24. our executive bonuses weren't high enough.  We got big bonuses for
  25. doing this."  Longer, but to the point, eh?
  26.  
  27. Glenn
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