Word: jargoning
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...They tell me you're an economist, but you're the first that I've met from outside Cambridge, Mass." Kennedy, however, quickly got over his hesitation about accepting advice from someone unconnected with either Harvard or M.I.T. Walter Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years, but his high- pitched Midwestern twang still rang loud in every debate over economic policy, commanding...
...president of the Goldman Sachs investment firm and an economic adviser in four Administrations: "The markets have made a mistake if they think the White House may have more influence on the Fed. It will be the other way around." Hormats' reasoning: Volcker's commanding manner and banker's jargon may have been off-putting to Reagan. Greenspan, on the other hand, has a gift for rendering economic concepts in the kind of uncomplicated language beloved by the folksy President. Greenspan may try to coax Reagan, for example, to accept a tax increase in the fight to cut the federal...
...followed Kennan as director of policy planning -- s/p (for staff and planning) in the curious jargon of the State Department -- all had their brushes with epochal events. Paul Nitze, who at 80 is still active as President Reagan's arms-control adviser after service under eight Presidents, recalls a 1953 fight with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to exclude a sentence on Chinese expansionism from an Eisenhower speech just before the Korean War armistice. (Nitze won.) In the summer of 1962 Walt W. Rostow and his staff predicted that Nikita Khrushchev would soon embark on high-risk foreign policy...
...traditional elements that to some extent still typify the college experience--throwing off the values of one's parents and defining one's own, trying to outdo one another in radical political jargon, experimental binges of drugs, sex and sleep--assumed and added dimension for women in the early 1970s. "Five years earlier," Schumer writes, "men had been required to wear jackets and ties in the dining halls, and women weren't allowed in the undergraduate library in Harvard Yard. Now mattresses were pushed together on the floors and even the toilets were co-ed....What an anachronism the Radcliffe...
...independent deterrents of Britain and France by definition cannot function as an American trip wire, and U.S.-based strategic weapons might sit out a war in Europe. U.S. short-range and battlefield weapons might blunt a Soviet blitzkrieg but cannot carry the war to the Soviet homeland. In the jargon of nukespeak, some Europe-based, intermediate-range American weapons are necessary to serve the cause of "coupling" between the U.S. and its allies...