Word: jargoning
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...taxes in individual accounts, the government will need another source to cover benefits for retirees--as much as $2 trillion by some estimates. The options are grim: borrowing heavily, cutting benefits or both. While Bush has not spelled out how he would deal with what are known in bureaucratic jargon as the "transition costs," Wehner and others at the White House have signaled that he is leaning toward a significant reduction in future benefits that gets deeper over the decades. Some Republicans say that move alone could kill Bush's plan. "Any effort to change the benefit pattern just virtually...
...said, 'The good news is that we're at the center of government, getting a lot of resources and attention. But the bad news is that it puts a lot of pressure on us to perform.'" Keelty, who appears comfortable with managing a vast enterprise - and the corporate jargon that goes along with it - believes the organization is doing remarkably well, citing as successes the Bali investigations, a key role in the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, and this month's deployment to P.N.G. At home, the genial and softly spoken police chief points with pride to counter-terrorism...
...debate as to which is better—contract or proprietary (inhouse) service—has been going on for years,” says the jargon-heavy Guide to Contracting on their website. “With a shift toward quality orientation, the argument is transformed into a problem solving opportunity...
...each season, nor should they be reduced to a binary distinction. As Lyn Mikel Brown, an associate professor of women’s gender and sexuality studies at Colby College, told the Orlando Sentinel, “‘modesty’ sounds like pre- or post-feminist jargon for stepping back, acting nice, not making waves… I worry that what will follow is a push for girls to be more accommodating and conservative...
Recent Latin American history is littered with dictatorships, torturous regimes and the deaths of those journalists who try to expose the truth. Perhaps the most famous case is Rodolfo Walsh, the Argentine writer who, using the jargon of the subject, was “disappeared” the day after he wrote an open letter criticizing the Argentine government...