Word: jargoning
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This spring the ACSR chose to energize the legalistic and noncommittal jargon of the Corporation's case-by-case review policy by chiding companies that fail to operate in the interests of South African Blacks. Marking this new commitment, it changed a decision of a year ago and supported a resolution requiring Caterpillar Tractor to investigate the transfer of machinery from the private to the military sectors in South Africa. The Corporation, noting the sudden change of the ACSR, abstained on the resolution and said it would not reconsider the vote until the ACSR accounted for its new conviction. Detlev...
Grant's counseling is couched in the familiar jargon of pop psych: "I try to help people get in touch with their own resources and use them wisely ... This is the process of self-actualization." She is also prone to fortune-cookie formulations: "Life is not a dress rehearsal. Make use of every...
...many doctors, a headache is "cephalalgia." Itching is "pruritus." Swallowing is "deglutition." Professionals tend to view such words as tools of the trade and an aid to precise speech. But Lois DeBakey, a professor of scientific communication at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, thinks that technical jargon not only alienates patients but masks fuzzy thinking...
Arlen plays it as it lays, scoring easily off the corporate phraseology and such market-research jargon as "psychographic segmentation." He is obviously amused that so much time, money and solemnity can be expended on something as innocuous as a television commercial. But there is no doubt that Arlen also admires the ambition, talent and professionalism of these people he calls "communications era artisans." Thirty Seconds is itself a series of finely perceived, artfully arranged vignettes. So, despite the book's tone of asperity, it is no small compliment when one superior craftsman acknowledges the work of others...
...cultures as well as the economies of their colonies. With acute powers of observation, Naipaul isolates their lingering presences in the rhetoric of Third World leaders. They are entertainers who distract their followers from facing the problems of development. Their songs use borrowed words: angry, anti-imperialist jargon grafted on to desires for a Western, consumer economy...