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Television has developed an elaborate jargon that has possibilities as slang. Voiceover, segue, intro and out of sync have been part of the more general language for a long time. Now there is the out-tro, the stand-up spiel at the end of a news reporter's segment. A vividly cynical new item of TV news jargon is bang-bang, meaning the kind of film coverage that TV reporters must have in order to get their reports from El Salvador or the Middle East onto the evening news...
Brown answers this argument in the same jargon. "Think about it," he says: "You're dealing with an inelastically supplied commodity with a sharply rising demand. There's not much excuse for that sort of thing in the intellectual community...
Most small computers come supplied with a programming language called BASIC, for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Written in the mid-'60s for Dartmouth College students, BASIC assumes a working knowledge of algebra and some technical computer jargon as well. Logo, by contrast, was created with grade-school children in mind. To keep things very, very simple for the user, Logo starts off with a handful of English words that the computer recognizes as commands to make it do things. The word PLAY, for instance, tells a properly equipped computer to play a musical note. Another...
...about 16% in the U.S.) and government aid for research and development. Moreover, the Americans say, such large and diversified companies as Hitachi (1981 sales: $15 billion) and Nippon Electric ($5 billion) could afford to forgo profits on memory chips in order to undercut competitors. In the jargon of foreign trade, Japan has allegedly "dumped" chips in the U.S. market at a price lower than production costs...
...Jewish Publication Society Bible translation [July 5] is neither Orthodox nor genuine. It is a freewheeling, liberal translation, which substitutes Americanese and sociological jargon for the authenticity of the rabbinic tradition-"norms" instead of "statutes." American Orthodox Jews prefer two recent Bible translations...