Word: jargoning
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Such questions are usually the arcana of traders and government specialists. But now they are at the center of the hottest, and most complicated, political fight of the year. The arguments, though often phrased in economic jargon, involve gut issues: prices and jobs. The battle has been joined not only by Washington and Wall Street but by the major industrial powers as well. At stake is nothing less than continued prosperity and friendly relations between the trading nations...
...press who chose to visit this particular fair. Two reporters from major metropolitan dailies also were there, asking questions about how a given family felt its lifestyle compared to that of Jessica Lange's and Sally Field's in the movie versions. Their questions were full of trendy jargon that probably went over well with the sushi-set back home but seemed lost on their down-to-earth victims: "Do you see yourself as an independent female role model for all women currently invading the workplace?" one twelve-year-old milkmaid was asked. "Are you a strong, sensitive type...
...sneezed on, even hugging and social kissing. Members of families who have lived in intimate non-sexual contact with AIDS victims for many years have yet to produce a single documented case of the disease. No doctor, nurse, dental technician or other "health-care provider," to use the medical jargon, in the U.S. is known to have picked up AIDS from a patient. (A nurse in Britain who contracted the disease was accidentally pricked with a contaminated needle.) In fact, there are only four ways in which the disease is known to be transmitted...
...debt. Now private lenders are snapping up everything from car loans to equipment leases and offering shares in them to investors. Anthony Dub, a managing director of the First Boston investment banking firm, plans to begin selling bank credit-card loans later this year. Known in Wall Street jargon as securitization, the rapidly spreading technique ensures that ! the original loanmakers have plenty of cash available to continue lending...
When their guards were up, the experts in Indianapolis tended to talk in the void jargon of management science: proactive modes, assessment of capabilities, lethal-type substances impacting on the environment, mass- casualty situations. Of course, those in the catastrophe business have a better excuse than most for their tendency toward euphemism. "I have found," said the Rev. Fred Page, a Presbyterian minister from Ruston, La., "that using the word morgue with someone who has just lost a loved one may not be best...