Word: jargoning
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Trowbridge talks business, patiently explaining wireless techno-jargon, in the Winthrop House dining hall, where he says he is a regular. The company, which currently employs seven people, focuses on marketing with wireless technologies such as text messaging. Moeo acts as the connection between entertainment companies and wireless companies, selling software which allows entertainment companies to communicate with customers through cell phones. In the case of the WB, this involves sending clues (insider info on the behind-the-scenes antics of Dawson and the gang, for example) on cell phones to subscribers (you can already sign up at www.thewb.com/insider)...
Summers is a smart man fluent in economic jargon. It is all too easy for him to gloss over the moral basis for our social welfare system. In the current debate over school vouchers, made more immediate by the recent decision by Philadelphia to privatize its schools, we must include the incalculables in our cost-benefit analysis. Summers should remember that while the language of economics and incentives can be a useful tool, it does not tell the whole story...
Industry watchers expect the FDA to take some kind of action within the next few weeks. At least one pharmacy that had been producing its own pops--compounding them, in the jargon of the trade--and selling them over the counter, isn't waiting for the FDA crackdown. "This was our first venture into otc compounding," says William Johns, owner of Peoples Custom Rx in Memphis, Tenn. "I've decided we will sell them only by prescription until this all gets sorted...
...last fall, evidence against kava was starting to pile up. Health authorities in Switzerland and Germany had gathered records of close to 30 incidents--"adverse-event reports," in the clinical jargon--in which kava users suffered severe liver damage. A few patients required transplants, and at least one died. The response in Europe has been swift and decisive. In the U.S., however, the FDA's hands are tied until researchers can establish a definite causal link between kava and liver disease. That could take years...
...club, refer their members to The Little Network Book by Lon Poole and John Rizzo and invite people over to look at their home network. "Some people are still intimidated by their computers," says Almita. "It's not that what you're doing is hard; it's all the jargon...