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• A Fine Mess, title of a movie
• abundant poverty
• academic sorority
• academic fraternity
• a cappella with music
• accidentally on purpose
• accurate estimate
• accurate rumors
• accurate stereotype
• acrophobic mountain-climbers
• act naturally
• active retirement
• acute apathy
• acute dullness
• advanced BASIC
• advanced beginner
• affirmative action
• affordable housing
• aging yuppie
• agree to disagree
• agroforestry
• agrosilviculture
• agrosilvopastoral
• A Hard Day’s Night, song title
• airline food
• airline schedules
• a little big
• a little pregnant
• almost always
• almost candid
• almost certain
• almost exactly
• almost impossible
• almost never
• almost perfect
• almost persuaded
• almost pregnant
• almost safe
• almost suddenly
• almost surprised
• almost totally
• Alone Together, title of a book written by Elena Bonner (1986), widow of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Andrei Sakharov
• amateur expert
• American culture
• American education
• American English
• American Honda
• amicable divorce
• among the first
• Amtrak schedule
• anarchy rules
• angry patient
• anonymous colleague
• anticipated serendipity
• anticipating the unanticipated
• anxious patient
• apathetically urged
• apathetic interest
• approximate solution
• approximately equal
• arms limitation
• army intelligence
• arrogant humility
• artificial intelligence
• astronomically small
• athletic scholarship
• Aunt Jemima Light
• authoritarian anarchy
• auto pilot
• awfully good

• baby grand (piano)
• Back to the Future, name of a movie
• bad health
• bad luck
• balanced insanity
• balding hair
• bankrupt millionaire
• barely dressed
• battle ready
• benevolent despot
• benign neglect
• better than new
• beyond infinity
• big sip
• binging on moderation
• biomortia (living dead)
• bipartisan cooperation
• birth control
• birthday suit
• bittersweet
• black and white in color (The Washington Post, "Book World", February 9, 1992)
• black gold
• black light
• blameless culprit
• blending family (when step-parents and their children try to have “a life” in agreement)
• blind eye
• blue rose
• border control
• brave politician
• brave wimp
• brief political speech
• brief survey
• brilliantly dull
• British gourmet food
• bright night
• bright shade
• budget deficit
• bug-free code (computer)
• build down
• bull riding
• business casual
• business ethics

• calculated spontaneity
• California freeway/expressway
• California culture
• California style
• calm storm
• calm winds
• camping resort
• casual chic, used in “Calvin & Hobbes” (March 24, 1995): “A spotted tie is just the thing when you’re wearing stripes! Tigers have a natural flair for casual chic!”
• casual formality
• casual intimacy
• casual sex
• casually concerned
• cat fish
• cat proof
• cavalier concern
• Central Intelligence Agency
• centrally-planned economy
• certainly unsure
• chaotic organization
• cheap gas
• cheerful pessimist
• cheerful undertaker
• cheerfully mournful
• cheerfully cynical
• Cherokee Pioneer (name of U.S. car)
• chic (geek chic, nerd chic, sloppy chic, trend chic) [based on the sloppy way some people are dressing in tech-work places].
• child proof
• chilling fever
• Chinese chop suey
• Christian militia
• Christian Scientists
• Church of Scientology
• CIA cooperation
• civil disobedience
• civil engineer
• civil servants
• civil service
• civil strife; spoken by Casca in “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare
• civil war
• civilized warfare
• Classic New Homes
• classic rock & roll
• clean air
• clean coal
• clean dirt
• clean kill
• clean oil
• clean toilet
• clear as mud
• clearly ambiguous
• clearly confused
• clearly confusing
• clearly misunderstood
• clearly obscure
• clever fool
• Clinton leadership
• Clinton’s changing-political positions: “He talks right and runs left.” (Bob Dole)
• Clinton principles
• cluster bomb
• coal-mine safety
• co-ed fraternity
• co-ed sorority
• cold as hell
• cold hotdog
• cold sweat
• cold toast
• college education
• college student
• combative apology
• commercial art
• committee decision
• committee schedule
• common sense
• communist party
• comparatively unique
• compassionate editor
• completed research
• completed website
• completely educated
• completely unfinished
• computer science
• computer security
• completely succinct in-depth (speech, article, etc.)
• compulsory volunteers
• Congressional accountability (U.S.)
• Congressional action (U.S.)
• Congressional cooperation (U.S.)
• Congressional ethics (U.S.)
• Congressional responsibility (U.S.)
• Congressional wisdom (U.S.)
• conscripted volunteer
• consensual rape
• conservative liberal
• considerate boss
• consistent discrepancies
• consistent uncertainties
• consistently inconsistent (heard on CNN from a Russian reporter referring to ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, “Zhirinovsky is consistently inconsistent8")
• conspicuous absence
• conspicuously absent
• constant change
• constant infrequent
• constant variable
• constructive ambiguity
• constructive criticism
• constructive negativity
• contra aid
• contra assistance
• controlled enthusiasm
• controlled-market economy
• controlled skeptic
• convenience store
• conventional wisdom
• corporate conscience
• corporate planning
• correctional institution
• cosmology is in chaos
• corporate family
• corporate planning
• criminal justice
• criminal system
• crisis management
• cruel kindness
• cryocaustic
• current history
• curved line
• customer satisfaction
• customer service

• daily special
• dangerously safe
• dead right
• deafening silence
• deaf-piano tuner
• death benefits
• debugged program
• deeper high
• defensive strike
• definite maybe
• degradable plastic
• deliberately thoughtless
• deliberate mistake
• deliberate speed
• delicious torment-Ralph Waldo Emerson
• demanding patient
• Department of the Interior (U.S., responsible for out-door realms)
• designer beer
• designer jeans
• desktop publishing
• devout atheist
• diet icecream
• diligent sloth
• diminished confidence
• diminutive giants
• direct circumvention
• disaster preparedness
• disciplined gluttony
• disco music
• disposable income
• distant relatives
• Divided Unity, author Andreas Glaeser; a book about the unity of Germany
• divorce court
• Dodge Ram
• divorce court
• dollar value
• domestic cooperation
• down escalator
• down elevator
• dress pants
• driving pleasure
• dry creek
• dry ice
• dry humor (British, dry humour)
• dry lake
• dull acupuncturists
• dull roar
• dull shine
• dynamic monotone
• dynamic stability
• “Dying is a part of life.”

• easy labor (childbirth)
• easy payments
• easy task
• easy to follow directions
• economic forecast
• economic reform
• economic stability
• educated consumer
• educated guess
• educational administration
• educational television
• elected king
• elementary calculus
• elevated subway
• elite rabble
• eloquent silence
• energetic exhaustion
• enough time
• entertaining sermon
• enthusiastic indifference
• enthusiasm (luke-warm enthusiasm)
• equal justice
• equal opportunity
• ergo-friendly keyboard (computer)
• ergonomic keyboard
• eschew obfuscation
• essential luxury
• eternal life
• ethical hackers
• ethnic cleansing
• European Community
• evaporated milk
• even-odd
• evolutionary fact
• evolutionary technology
• exact estimate
• exact estimation: “chronoscopy is the observation and exact estimation of time.”
• executive secretary
• expected serendipity
• expected surprise
• explicit innuendo
• explicitly ambiguous
• express bus
• express mail
• express ways (same as “freeways”)
• expressive silence
• extensive briefing
• extinct life
• extremely average
• extremely bland
• extremely neutral
• eyes wide shut

• faculty cooperation
• faculty understanding
• fail safe
• fairly explicit
• fairly obvious
• fair reporting
• false fact (facts)
• family vacation
• famous-anonymous (writers, poets, etc.)
• farewell reception
• fast idle
• fast-mail service
• fast food
• fast turtle
• fast waiter
• fat-free cream cheese
• faultily faultless
• fearful bravery -William Shakespeare
• federal budget
• fiber glass
• fiery ice
• fighting for peace
• filing system
• final conclusion
• final version
• finally again
• financially strong savings and loan associations and banks
• fire water
• firm estimate
• firm maybe
• first annual
• first conclusions
• first deadline
• first-strike defense
• fish farm
• flat-busted (breasted)
• flexible ethics
• flexible freeze (in economics)
• flood control
• floppy disk
• football scholarship
• found missing
• foreign policy continuity
• free love
• free prisoner
• free society
• free with purchase
• freezer burn
• fresh cheese
• fresh dried fruit
• fresh frozen
• fresh-frozen jumbo shrimp
• fresh prunes
• fresh raisins
• fresh yogurt
• fried roast
• friendly argument
• friendly competitor
• friendly divorce
• friendly enemy/enemies
• friendly fire (from one’s own military side); formerly, or officially, referred to as “fratricide”.
• friendly fire (forests, etc.)
• friendly rocket death
• friendly suit (legal)
• friendly takeover
• friendly war
• front end
• frozen food
• Frugal Gourmet
• full service
• full-time hobby
• functional illiterate
• future history
• fuzzy logic

• gargantuan lilliputian
• gay Christians
• gay marriage
• gay priests
• genuine fake
• genuine imitation
• genuine-imitation leather
• glacier-like rapidity
• global village
• good garbage
• good graft
• good grief
• good junk
• good lawyer
• good profanity
• good stuff
• gourmet hamburger
• gourmet pizza
• gourmet sandwich
• government aid
• government efficiency
• government integrity
• government organization
• government worker
• graduate student
• Grape Nuts
• graphic language
• Great Britain
• great depression
• gregarious recluse
• green blackberries
• green manufacturing
• green oranges
• grotesque beauty
• growing small
• guest host
• guaranteed forecast
• guest host
• gummily brittle
• gunboat diplomacy

• half true
• half dead
• half empty
• half full
• half naked
• hard pillow
• hard water
• happy apathy
• happy demise
• happy fault
• happy Monday
• happy pessimist
• hard pillow
• hard water
• harmless abuse
• harmless pollution
• harmonious discord
• hasten slowly
• health-care system
• healthful-city environment
• heifer bull (a smaller bull to breed a young cow)
• Hell’s Angels
• highly visible covert operation
• hilarious funeral
• history of the future
• hollow point
• holy hell
• holy land
• Holy Roman Empire
• holy wars
• home office
• honest bureaucratic snafu
• honest convict
• honest crook
• honest graft
• honest insurance companies
• honest insurance companies
• honest liar
• honest politician
• honest thief
• Hong Kong (said to originally mean “fragrant harbor” in reference to the stench from the dumping of raw waste)
• hopeful pessimist
• hopelessly optimistic
• hospital food
• horribly decent
• hot ice
• House Ethics Committee
• huge market niche
• humane robotics
• human robot
• hypothetical situations

• IBM compatible
• IBM-Apple compatible
• idiot savant (singular)
• idiots savants (plural)
• idly laborious
• ill fortune
• ill health
• important trivia
• immigration control
• Incompatibility, Grounds for a Great Marriage (title of a book by Charles and Barbara Snyder)
• incomplete cure
• incredibly real
• increasing declines
• increasingly little
• indifferently attentive
• indirect communication
• industrial park
• inexpensive medical care
• Information Superhighway
• industrial park
• initial conclusion
• initial results
• initial retirement
• innocent bureaucratic blunder (President Bill Clinton describing White House mandated FBI investigation of high-ranking Republicans and others)
• ironwood
• inside out
• insincere thanks
• insincere vow
• instant classic
• instant folk hero
• intelligent fight
• intelligent news coverage
• intense apathy
• intense disinterest
• interested students
• internal exile
• Internal Revenue Service
• interstate highways in Hawaii
• intimate murder
• intimate strangers
• invisible ink
• irate patient

• journalistic accuracy
• journalistic integrity
• jumbo shrimp
• junior senator
• junk bonds
• junk food
• just war
• justifiable genocide
• justifiably paranoid
• justified rape

• known-covert operation
• kosher ham

• lady-mud wrestler
• laid-back compulsive
• land developer
• land development
• larger half
• lasting aid
• law brief
• lead balloon
• lean pork
• least favorite
• legal brief
• legal ethics
• legal justice
• legally drunk
• legitimate conspiracy
• legitimate politics
• lesser evil
• less is more
• liberal conservative
• liberal fundamentalists
• light armor
• light-heavyweight
• limited immunity
• limited incursion
• linear curve
• liquid crystal
• liquid gas
• liquid metal
• liquid paper
• liquid smoke
• literal interpretation
• literary illiterates
• little big
• little big horn
• little bit big
• little deceptive
• little giant
• live recording
• live television
• living dead
• living death -John Milton
• living end
• living fossil
• local long distance
• local network
• locks on 7-11 stores which are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• long recess
• long sleeve t-shirt
• loose tights
• loud whisper
• loquacious librarian
• loss prevention specialist
• love-hate relationship
• low-intensity conflict
• low-fat icecream
• lower inflation
• low insurance rates
• loyal opposition
• luke-warm enthusiasm
• luxury beer
• luxury bus

• macro-microorganism
• mail delivery
• major minority
• male compassion
• man child
• mandatory option(s)
• many-breasted Amazon
• martial law
• maternity fashion
• mature student
• meaningful nonsense
• meaningful-overnight relationship
• meatless meat
• Medicaid payments
• medium large
• medium well
• micro-mainframe
• Microsoft Works
• Middle East peace
• mild abrasive
• mild cigar
• mild interest
• Middle East peace progress
• mildly psychotic
• militant pacifist
• military accountability
• military intelligence (used in Catch 22 by J. Heller)
• military justice
• military peace
• military system
• mind-expanding drugs
• mini jumbo
• minor disaster
• minor miracle
• minor surgery
• mobile home
• mobile house
• mobile station
• modern history
• modern maturity
• modestly arrogant
• modified-final judgement
• monoglottal babble
• Montana Freemen
• moral majority
• morbid humor
• more unique
• most unique
• motorcycle safety
• mournful optimist
• mud bath
• mute sound
• mutually exclusive

• nameless celebrity
• nasty politeness
• national medicare program
• natural artifact
• natural makeup
• natural synthetic
• near miss
• nearly complete
• neat office
• negative gain
• negative growth
• negative momentum
• Neolithic (New Stone Age) period
• never again
• never generalize
• new and improved
• new antique
• new classic
• new cliche
• New Mexico
• new routine
• new used cars
• New York culture
• nice and sleazy
• noble savage
• noiseless sound
• noisy mime
• non-alcoholic beer
• non-alcoholic wine
• non-dairy creamer
• non-denominational church
• non-fat cream
• non-fat ice cream
• non-intervention intervention (Expressed on CNBC by Nick Hastings regarding the European Central Bank’s purchase of over two billion dollars of Euros; September 15, 2000).
• non-profit organizations
• non-stick glue
• non-stick gum
• non-stick velcro
• non-stop flight
• non-working mother
• normal deviation
• normal espionage
• normal human

• obedient defiance
• objective opinion
• objective parent
• objective rating
• obscene art
• obvious secret
• oddly appropriate
• oddly natural
• old news
• 100%+
• one size fits all
• only choice
• on time flight
• on time train
• open secret
• operating system (computer)
• orderly confusion
• organized anarchy
• organized chaos
• organized committee
• organized confusion
• organized mess
• original copy/copies
• original reprint

• Pacific Ocean
• paid volunteer
• painless torture
• paper tablecloth
• paperless office
• parents without partners
• partial conclusion
• partial silence
• partial success
• partially completed
• partially organized
• partly pregnant
• passive aggression
• passive challenge
• passive confrontation
• passively aggressive
• passively tried
• patriotic militia
• peace benefits
• peace force
• peace offensive
• peace officer
• peace-keeper missile
• peaceful liberation (According to China and its military occupation of Tibet 50 years ago in 1951).
• peaceful protests
• perfect idiot
• perfect misfit
• perfectly awful
• permanent guest host
• persistent ambivalence
• personal computer
• personalized form letter
• petty cash
• pianoforte
• pigeon's milk
• pious atheist
• planned exodus
• planned serendipity
• planned spontaneity
• plastic flowers
• plastic glass/glasses
• plastic silverware
• plastic wood
• player coach
• pleasant hell
• pleasing pain
• police protection
• politely insulting
• political ethics
• political leadership
• political promise
• political science
• political solutions
• political trust
• politically correct
• poor intelligence
• population control
• positive resistance
• positively negative
• postal efficiency
• postal service
• powdered water
• practical experience
• practical joke
• Practical Parenting, title of a journal for parents
• precision bombing
• preliminary conclusion
• premeditated spontaneity
• presidential promises
• pretty bad
• pretty ugly
• precision thinking
• prison life
• private citizen
• private e-mail
• pro-contra
• professional-sport wrestling
• progressing backward
• Progressive Conservative
• pronounced silence
• proud humility
• psychiatric care
• public secret
• public service
• public school education
• pure .999
• pure speculation

• qualified success
• quick fix
• quick reboot (computer)
• quiet hurricanes
• quiet revolution
• quiet scream
• quiet tirade

• Radical Center (a reference to the political stance of Bill Clinton & Tony Blair, according to Tony Blair)
• random logic
• random order
• randomly organized
• rap artist
• rap music
• rapid transit
• rational ravings
• real fantasy
• real magic
• real phony
• real polyester
• real potential
• reasonable attorney fees
• reasonable medical fees
• reasonable pharmaceutical costs
• Rebel Without a Cause, title of a movie
• recent history
• recoilless rifle
• reckless caution
• re-create
• recreational burning
• regional pantheists
• regular special
• relative truth
• religious tolerance
• remotely obvious
• renegade lawmakers
• required elective
• recent history
• resident alien
• resolute ambivalence
• restless sleep
• rich country, poor people (a reference to Japan)
• rising deficits
• roaring silence
• rock music
• rock opera
• rolling stop
• roomy airline-coach seats
• routine emergency
• routine surgery
• rules of war
• Russian economy