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CONSENT DECREE: A document in which a hapless company consents never to commit in the future whatever heinous violations of Federal law it never admitted to in the first place.
Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. -- Leo C. Roste
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
Consider a spherical bear, in simple harmonic motion.
.." -- Professor in the UCB physics departme...
Consider the following axioms carefully: "Everything's better when it sits on a Ritz.
and "Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it....
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
-- Titus Maccius Plautu...
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
-- Josh Billing...
CONSULTANT: (1) Someone you pay to take the watch off your wrist and tell you what time it is.
(2) (For resume use) The working title of anyone who doesn't currently hold a job....
CONSULTANT: An ordinary man a long way from home.
CONSULTANT: [From con "to defraud, dupe, swindle," or, possibly, French con (vulgar) "a person of little merit" + sult elliptical form of "insult.
] A tipster disguised as an oracle, especially o...

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