Word: jargoning
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Nevertheless, Generation X has been anointed as the "On the Road" of our time. The media loves it because Coupland is thoughtful enough to turn the margins into a manual for the new age, full of improvised jargon and invented slang: "McJob," "recurving" and "cryptotechnophobia." Never mind that no human tongue, including Coupland's, has ever spoken these words; they are comforting grist for the media mill...
...sales role.) Other Administration officers will hit the road to whoop up the plan; the White House has brought in a TV coach to prep them to make the most effective possible appearances on national talk shows and local programs. Among other things, they are being told to avoid jargon: to talk of alliances, for example, instead of Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperatives -- and for heaven's sake not HIPCs (pronounced Hippicks...
...bedeviled the process all the way through." Everyone knew that the numbers belonged to Ira Magaziner, the longtime Clinton friend whose consulting work for hospitals during the 1980s earned him a place as the candidate's most trusted health-care adviser. A tall, balding man with a weakness for jargon, Magaziner seemed to live in a world with its own brand of mathematics. He contended that Clinton could cover 37 million uninsured Americans by putting controls on costs and eliminating waste. Nearly every Democratic health-care expert, however, concluded that efficiencies alone would never be enough: Clinton would have...
...commissioner is appointed to oversee its structure and content. This year the task fell to a Neapolitan art critic named Achille Bonito Oliva. Bonito Oliva is a mini-celebrity in Italy, an imbonitore, or bustling promoter, of groups and movements, who gave the '80s its silliest piece of art jargon, "la transavanguardia," the "trans-avant-garde." He wanted to create a Biennale that would transcend national differences and illustrate "cultural nomadism." To put it charitably, his talents are not up to the task...
...maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because of a "pre-existing condition" (insurance jargon meaning they already have an ailment that is expensive to treat, perhaps kidney disease or multiple sclerosis). And for everybody -- patients, taxpayers, state officials, business executives -- the reforms promise, eventually at least, a slowdown in the relentless rise of medical costs that keeps kiting up insurance premiums and patients' bills...