Word: jargoning
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Strip away the diplomatic jargon and that statement is pure dynamite. Its author? U.S. Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, writing in the influential South African bimonthly Leadership, whose latest issue appeared last week. The U.S. State Department insisted that it was entirely consistent with previously stated U.S. policy condemning the South African practice of racial apartheid. As departmental officials noted, Secretary of State George Shultz in a September speech called for a "universal franchise for all adult South Africans," which by implication assumes eventual black rule. But Perkins' article was nonetheless viewed by some observers as a breakthrough, if only...
Another contributor to climatic change is the biosphere -- scientific jargon for the realm of all living things on earth. And it is the biosphere that threatens to tip the balance. To be sure, many of its effects are natural and as such have long been part of the climatic equilibrium. Termites, for example, produce enormous amounts of gas as they digest woody vegetation: a single termite mound can emit five liters of methane a minute. The methane escapes into the atmosphere, where it can not only destroy ozone but also act as a greenhouse gas in its own right. "Termites...
Instructors in the seminars tend to mix impressive jargon -- Hersey/ Blanchard situational leadership, Ouchi's Theory Z -- with the homiest of explanations. Introducing the Premack Principle, Larry Baker says, "My mother used to state it functionally: 'Larry, when your room is clean, you may go out to play...
What sometimes gets lost in the midst of all this legal jargon is that Bork is on the wrong side of the single most important social issue dividing people in this country today--the right to reproductive freedom. Bork has said that he opposes abortion and that he considers the famed Roe v. Wade decision ill-reasoned. These statements are very important because the court is at its most powerful when setting the social policy of the country...
...secret shipments, Toshiba Machine disguised eight sophisticated milling machines as simple hole-boring devices and rechristened them with misleading jargon (in one case, from a model MBP 110 to a TDP 70/110) to fool MITI inspectors. When Toshiba had brought Soviet officials to its plant to see the machines work, engineers demonstrated only the simple functions during normal working hours, then later showed off the equipment's true capacity when the plant was deserted, the report claims. The secrecy extended even to accounting: Toshiba Machine allegedly split the proceeds from one shipment into two semiannual periods to avoid drawing attention...