The dreaded risutora--restructuring, the euphemism for layoffs--has not hit his firm yet, but he is waiting.
Alas, those excess savings are a euphemism for excess money creation by central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve.
Or is "relearn" just a euphemism designed to conceal that their high school education was a total waste?
Lawyers tried this with busing and affirmative action and the results have been, to use a journalistic euphemism, decidedly mixed.
This turns out to be a euphemism for a ten-minute stumble over broken pavements, through the traffic fumes of south London.
But Mr Reed, vice-chairman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said Mrs May's talk of reform was "a euphemism for cuts".
Its credit rating has been downgraded by Moody's to "not prime" (a euphemism for junk) and it's losing its chief executive, Barry Tootell.
As Thailand's best-known "influential person, " the local euphemism for underworld don, Somchai dresses to character in a loud Hawaiian shirt and heavy gold amulets.
Many economists have already concluded that elevated unemployment rates are structural (a euphemism for long-term) when it comes to getting America back to work.
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Hyde The word "challenge" is often a euphemism for a problem.
Raines also has no patience for Washington policyspeak, or political euphemism.
While New BAC sounds fancy, it is really a euphemism for layoffs, consolidations and improving processes to make the Company run more efficiently with fewer employees.
The 9 flavors including fruit punch, blue raspberry, and orange blend (is this an euphemism for Tang-flavored?) are clearly not geared towards those with discerning palates.
Lord knows I am not the smartest person in the world, the brightest bulb, the sharpest knife or any other euphemism you want to trot out connoting intelligence.
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But by 1997 it had become a euphemism for irrelevance.
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On the 30-year fixed mortgages I was looking at, rates ranged from 4.17% to 4.41% with zero points (an industry euphemism for a commission calculated as a percentage of the loan amount).
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Your time is no longer your own, and you resign yourself to "maturity, " "filling out" or whatever euphemism for middle age that soothes that idea that you are simply overweight, unfit and unhealthy.
His unerring nose for pretense in the art world and American life, and his gift for comic invective when faced with political correctness and euphemism, alienated him from both the left and the right.
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Some see parity as a euphemism for mediocrity.
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Against this chilly backdrop, the word "frank" - a diplomatic euphemism for open disagreement - was bound to appear in later descriptions of the one hour and 40 minutes of talk between Clinton and Musharraf.
" He adds, with more than a little euphemism, "In a world in which 98% of the conversations are about cost containment, it's a joy for them to have somebody who's focused on enhancing quality only.
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As reports suggested that Duncan Smith's leadership manifesto would indicate a desire for closer links with the North American trade zone Nafta, Mr Clarke described his rival's European policy as "a euphemism for leaving the EU".
Hence, fashion designers often prefer a euphemism.
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At a cyclocross race, you can stand in one place, drink your beer, shake your cowbell (that's not a euphemism I mean a real cowbell) and watch the whole thing unfold since a lot of the course will be visible.
And when we talk about "mutualisation" of eurozone sovereign debt, that's a euphemism for Germany underwriting all eurozone nations' debt - and it seems unlikely that, when put that way, the German people will find that more appealing than a plate of cold sick.
Later this month, the newly elected prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, will be coming to the United States seeking President Bush's endorsement of his "convergence" plan - the euphemism adopted to describe his intention to withdraw over the next few years between 50, 000 and 100, 000 Israeli civilians and Israel's security forces from up to 95 percent of the West Bank.
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