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Madhulk Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Fine print...

Lana: LuthorCorp stiII owns aII the equipment,
but it was mothbaIIed (destroyed?) six months ago.

Chloe: WeII, I can see why.
How's this for fine print? This doesn't sound ambiguous at all.
The project worked severaI times,
but then was abandoned...after three of the interrogators
died during impIementation. Autopsies reveaIed that their centraI
nervous systems were compIeteIy fried.
  

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Mothballed = postponed; put on hold; put in storage. How's this for fine print? = This is a good example of fine print ('the detailed wording of a contract, lease, insurance policy, or the like, often set in type smaller than the main body of the document and including general restrictions or qualifications that could be considered disadvantageous') .

  • Mothballed = postponed; put on hold; put in storage.
  • How's this for fine print?
  • = This is a good example of fine print ('the detailed wording of a contract, lease, insurance policy, or the like, often set in type smaller than the main body of the document and including general restrictions or qualifications that could be considered disadvantageous') .
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Mothballed = postponed; put on hold; put in storage.
How's this for fine print? = This is a good example of fine print ('the detailed wording of a contract, lease, insurance policy, or the like, often set in type smaller than the main body of the document and including general restrictions or qualifications that could be considered disadvantageous')
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Thanks, Mister Micawber!

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