WOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Why not "Occupants"?

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> Victor Steinbok
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: WOTY
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> And we are now supposed to call them "occupy activists" or "occupy
> protestors". I'm waiting for a Nunberg piece on the subject... (or
> Zimmer ... or Zwicky--I don't want to discriminate, but they come
later
> in the alphabet ;-)  )
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>      VS-)
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> On 10/11/2011 7:35 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> > Really? Why not just "occupy"--we now have "Occupy Wall Street"
(OWS),
> > "Occupy [city]", "Occupy Capitol", and, last, but not least
> > (obviously), "Occupy Everything". And it's got perfect timing for
WOTY
> > voting.
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> >     VS-)
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> > On 10/11/2011 6:39 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:
> >> No question about it:  "corporate greed"
> >
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