Word: jargoning
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...Harrisburg, Pa. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident in the history of U.S. nuclear power production, and of a long, often confused nightmare that threw the future of the nuclear industry into question...
Yeah, I'd feel the "U.S. [tax] system is fair and equitable" too if I were Henry and Richard Bloch with their $81 million [March 12]. When better than half of all taxpayers seek out professional tax preparers to guide them through the mind-stunning incomprehensibility and convoluted jargon, one understands why our present tax code is referred to as the "C.P.A.s' and Tax Preparers' Relief...
Psychiatrists themselves acknowledge that their profession often smacks of modern alchemy?full of jargon, obfuscation and mystification, but precious little real knowledge. The Patty Hearst trial was a typical embarrassment?one battery of distinguished psychiatrists neatly explained that Hearst was ill, another insisted that she was not. To radicals, feminists and homosexuals, psychiatry is just one more villainous agent of the status quo. More than a century ago, an antebellum psychiatrist blithely explained that slaves who tried to escape from their masters were suffering from "dromomania," the runaway disease. How does the public know that 20th century psychiatry...
...says that a "reason for trying to take on Charlie was my wish to understand him-an ambition which I haven't satisfied." He repeats that note of puzzlement throughout the book, drawing in a variety of marginal characters who scratch their heads at the ideas and jargon of philosophers like Hegel and Kant...
...FILM'S TITLE, incidentally, comes from nuclear engineers' jargon for the worst of all possible accidents at a nuclear power plant. If the level of the water circulating around the hot reactor core drops far enough that the core is uncovered, the heat of the reaction melts the steel containment vessel. Then the reactor itself sinks through the plant's floor, into the ground and, in theory, "all the way to China." In reality, it hits ground water first, and sends clouds of radioactive steam shooting into the atmosphere, killing or contaminating everything for miles around. Not a pleasant thought...