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  Weasel word - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Weasel words are almost always intended to deceive or draw attention from something the speaker doesn't want emphasized, rather than being the inadvertent result of the speaker's or writer's poor but honest attempt at description.
Generally, weasel terms are statements that are misleading because they lack the normal substantiations of their truthfulness, as well as the background information against which these statements are made.
Weasel terms are the equivalent of spin in the political sphere in British English.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Weasel_words   (1045 words)

  
 Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Weasel words give the force of authority to a statement without letting the reader decide if the source of the opinion is reliable.
Weasel words don't really give a neutral point of view; they just spread hearsay, or couch personal opinion in vague, or indirect forms syntax.
The {{weasel}} tag can be added to the top of an article or section to draw attention to the presence of weasel words.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_terms   (1054 words)

  
 Terms & Conditions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 'George the Weasel King' will shadow Nethercutt
SPOKANE — A term-limits group introduced a costumed character yesterday it is dispatching to shadow U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt on his campaign for a fourth term.
"George the Weasel King," a custom-made critter that looks a lot like the mascot of Chuck E. Cheese pizza restaurants, will appear at events throughout Nethercutt's Eastern Washington district to remind voters of the Republican's 1994 vow to limit his service to three terms.
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau is credited with coining the term "Weasel King" for Nethercutt in his Doonesbury strip.
www.ustl.org /Research/1999articles/990811seattlepostintelligencer.html   (201 words)

  
 Using a Web Server for System Performance Monitoring and Management, MIND September 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This also means that (and this is a bit more important in terms of WEASEL) my work in manipulating the event log record is not finished, because I have to use keys that are embedded in the event log record and system registry) to reconstruct the entire event log record for display.
The values for these entries indicate a file name containing a message string that is assigned to the event ID or category ID. In rough terms, these files have a set of string resources embedded in them.
In the first incarnation of WEASEL, it became apparent that getting an entire event log of any type could be an expensive operation due to a couple of factors.
www.microsoft.com /mind/0998/weasel.asp   (2967 words)

  
 KAMO Consultancy - Products
Starter Pack ®CMMI Terms and Definitions - 52 Color Illustrations of common terms with definitions on the back of the card.
Flash cards in the "On Your Own Terms" series are a training aid which provides terms and definitions in a format that can be used to help organizations implement and improve their processes more effectively and efficiently.
Booster Pack ®CMMI Terms and Definitions - 12 Color Illustrations of common terms with definitions on the back of the card.
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 Weasel's Luck
This attractive new re-release of Weasel's Luck showcases a new look for the Heroes series.
Galen Pathwarden, known unaffectionately as "the Weasel," would give anything to stay clear of adventure, danger, or heroism.
But that is before young Galen is pitch-forked into the center of a centuries-old curse, one family blood-feud too many, and a knightly tournament unto death.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=products/dlnovel/965340000   (149 words)

  
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 Sword Forum International - Axis of Weasel?
I was disturbed by the New York Post's recent "Axis of Weasel" headline, and the later depiction of French Representatives with their heads replaced by Weasels.
While such terms may illicit a cheap laugh, they only weaken the position of the person engaging in the debate at hand.
I was disturbed by the recent image of anti-American war protesters carrying renditions of the American flag with a swastika superimposed on it, and images of President Bush doing the "Heil Hitler" salute.
forums.swordforum.com /showthread.php?threadid=15741   (4410 words)

  
 Autism Treatment -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The section historic prognosis for permanently institutionalized autistic children was flagged as having weasel terms.
Research and clinical experience further suggests that autism is not a psychiatric but a neurological disorder.
Pervasive developmental disorder has emerged as a descriptive term for the cluster of disorders that includes autism.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/9/autism-treatment.html   (1557 words)

  
 L5r:Guide to writing better articles - L5r: Legend of the Five Rings
Avoid peacock terms that show off the subject of the article without containing any real information.
Similarly, avoid weasel terms that offer an opinion without really backing it up, and which are really used to express a non-neutral point of view.
Sometimes the way round using these terms is to back the statement up with a fact.
l5r.wikia.com /wiki/L5r:Guide_to_writing_better_articles   (3220 words)

  
 Sensei's Library: Wildlife terms
See also Vegetable terms (alias for Flora Terms), Anatomical terms and Mineral terms.
Also when 'weasel' occurs in English translation, is it this or something else?
I heard from a fluent Japanese speaker at the Massachusetts Go Association that 'tanuki' and 'tenuki' don't sound at all similar in Japanese.
senseis.xmp.net /?WildlifeTerms   (265 words)

  
 codemonkeyx.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It's funny that in a supposedly mostly Christian nation, where politics are charged with Christian religious moral issues, that this country is spending nearly five times more on the Pagan holiday of All Hallows Eve than on the mid term elections.
Well if something is not expressly excluded then it is in legal terms it is included.
According to the bill (errr…law) enemy combatants are not afforded habeas corpus rights and can be tortured during interrogation.
www.codemonkeyx.org   (2258 words)

  
 Medical Dictionary: Weasel - WrongDiagnosis.com
The following terms can be used for Weasel
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Information provided on this site is for informational purposes only; it is not intended as a substitute for advice from your own medical team.
www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/weasel.htm   (155 words)

  
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 Amazon.com: This Is Not a Weasel: A Close Look at Nature's Most Confusing Terms: Books: Philip B. Mortenson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Amazon.com: This Is Not a Weasel: A Close Look at Nature's Most Confusing Terms: Books: Philip B. Mortenson
This Is Not a Weasel: A Close Look at Nature's Most Confusing Terms (Paperback)
Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms by Eleanor Lawrence in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
www.amazon.com /This-Not-Weasel-Natures-Confusing/dp/0471273961   (1402 words)

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