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The commercial tie-ins--for Starbucks, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, and Heineken--aren't as oppressive as one might fear, although Austin's AOL e-mail address is a cybernetic badge of uncool.
The protesters say the WTO is bad because it permits oppressive and environmentally destructive practices and, by liberating greed, promotes these practices.
With a somber host, Millionaire would be oppressive.
His wife, Judy, and her father, Howard, are members of the intelligentsia in an unnamed country in the near future, and the story--told by the three characters seated at a table in direct address to the camera--involves the gradual destruction of their lives by an oppressive regime, and the moral disintegration of Jack, the eponymous survivor.
However, for patients with intrinsic or iatrogenically initiated brain failure, it is exceedingly difficult to monitor the combined effects of delirium and oppressive sedation regimens on neuronal function once visual clues are removed.