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Moore has mellowed since he came up as a 20-year-old "chippy" (jargon for a player with a chip on his shoulder), but he still approaches the game as though it were football on ice. "When I give a guy a good body check and get a penalty, it's still worth it," he admits, "as long as the check's a clean...
Praises "B" for your article, "The Era of Non-B"! How could you omit the terrible traffic of textbooks in the field of education, the area of lingo-jargon, grammatical error, meaningless repetition of four words (fundamental, needs, experiences, objectives), padded with graphs, charts, tables and diagrams that imply the reader may not comprehend the value of the paragraph, and therefore might catch...
Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz. He also mixes in a never-ending supply of phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target...
Solution Studying. In technical jargon, Tech Ops' principal job is "systems analysis." This means that it studies dozens of possible solutions to a problem, often combining physics, mathematics and engineering skills, suggests the most efficient solution...
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