Word: jargoning
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...trial has the courtroom in some upheaval. Saddam has been ejected three times in as many sessions. The defense attorneys refuse to attend. The new, court-appointed defense attorneys have had just a week to catch up on the complex case, which requires a command of Iraqi military jargon and weapons expertise. In court on Monday, the judge had to repeatedly ask the defense attorneys to clarify their questions and dismissed multiple queries as "irrelevant." The defendants themselves, frustrated at the sometimes-deficient cross-examination by their lawyers, pointed out discrepancies in the testimony...
That said, these parental advisories also seem to tap into an even broader need for meaning. Their elevated aims and empty jargon bring to mind the corporate-mission-statement craze of the '90s, when companies composed pithy statements of purpose that were so generic and laden with buzzwords (Optimizing! Adaptive! Empowering!) as to lose all meaning. Even now one drugmaker aspires "to provide society with superior products and services by developing innovations and solutions that improve the quality of life and satisfy customer needs, and to provide employees with meaningful work and advancement opportunities, and investors with a superior rate...
...everything from estate planning to buying the right Learjet or yacht for your family. At the same time, the region's robust economic expansion is creating a population explosion in the champagne-swilling classes. Most private banks sell their services only to those who are, in the industry jargon, "high-net-worth individuals" (HNWIs)?people with fortunes of at least $1 million. The number of Asians who attained that status hit 2.4 million last year, up 7.3% from 2004, according to the 2006 World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch and human-resources firm Capgemini. That compares with 2.8 million HNWIs...
...been holding back, now may be the time to buy. The problem, of course, is figuring out what to get. Alfred Poor, author of Professor Poor's Guide to Buying HDTV, suggests that instead of trying to sort through all the specifications and jargon at home, shoppers should go to a store. "The best thing you can do is trust your eyes," he advises. Here's what to look...
...feel alright using, considering I’ve actually had a chance to read the book this summer. Thanks to the train ride, of course.Commuting has a unique culture; a strange, exclusive social order open only to those who live inconveniently far away from their workplace, with a euphemistic jargon of its own. For instance, “commuter shoes” are the flip-flops you take off in the elevator before jamming your feet into heels, “listening to music” is “the only way to drown out the noise...