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...result, calendar displays are taking over ever larger sections of bookstores. One hot seller is the A-Hunk-a-Day Desk Calendar, which bears the subtitle Aren't You Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness...
...most recent buzzword favored by the Reagan Administration in explaining its strategy toward Central America is "symmetry." The term ties together the problems of the region's two most serious trouble spots, El Salvador and Nicaragua. By symmetry, the Administration means that it intends to do unto the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua precisely what it believes the Sandinistas are doing to the U.S.-supported government of El Salvador: aid the guerrillas who seek its overthrow. The strategy is to reach the point at which governments and insurgents in both El Salvador and Nicaragua will join in a ceasefire...
...however, the initial operation seems to have gone well beyond this aim. U.S. officials have been talking about the benefits of "symmetry," the latest buzzword in Washington. By symmetry Administration policymakers mean doing to the Sandinistas what the Sandinistas are doing to the government of El Salvador, namely backing a group of insurgents aimed at its overthrow. Some U.S. officials are convinced of the need to harass the Nicaraguans in order to impress upon them the notion that they cannot export revolution with impunity. Symmetry could come to imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with...
...merely trying to describe the ambiguous nature of the Palestinian "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is envisioned in his Sept. 1 peace plan. The problem was that the word homeland, like so many other bits of language concerning the Middle East, has become such a buzzword that it automatically invites an angry reaction. When Jimmy Carter spoke of the need for a Palestinian homeland in 1977, he provoked an uproar in Israel. So once again the White House insisted that the President had meant to say nothing new and that he was merely restating his call...
...says the lengthy primary season is "trying up millions of dollars which have no effect on the selection of delegates." The current system's "circus-like atmosphere" tests the credibility of the party, he argues, and all primaries should be held within the "window"--the buzzword for the three-month period from March 1 to June...