Word: jargoning
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...Arabs they encountered upon arrival, Carter's two historical planes achieve at best an uneasy co-existence. The juxtaposition of ancient history and the most recent developments would be difficult under the best of circumstances. But in The Blood of Abraham, Carter's tendency to mix bureaucratic jargon with country-style religious musing only aggravates the difficulties inherent in this approach...
Unless urgent action is taken, it's only a matter of time before the debt bomb explodes. The seriousness of the situation is often lost amidst the economic jargon. Technical disputes abound over the true extent of the problem, but almost everyone agrees that, despite phony supply-side arguments to the contrary, an increasing national debt fuels both high interest rates and an overvalued dollar. Aside from the fact that mortgage financing and business investments remain prohibitively expensive and will exert an increasing drag on the current recovery, high rates force the government to devote more and more taxpayer money...
...mindless fanaticism is the same, and the revolutionary jargon sounds all too familiar. After almost ten years of somnolent underground existence, Western Europe's urban guerrilla movements are once more wielding terrorism as a weapon for political disruption. The downfall of capitalism remains a long- term goal, but the immediate targets and the strategy have changed: in a brutal perversion of Western Europe's peace movement, the latest guerrilla campaign of bombings and assassinations is aimed chiefly at Western European defense installations and the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Equally ominous is evidence that terrorist bands in West Germany...
...from popular culture as "less-is-more" modernism ever was. Worse, it has abandoned all the social aspirations of the early modern movement. Yet antimodernism has demonstrated one important lesson: the absurdity of seeking a universal style. Designers talk increasingly about "pluralism," and they even picked up computer-advertising jargon about "user friendliness...
...buys, a final challenge must be faced before the machine is hooked up and ready for use: the instructions. Many VCR manuals read as if written in a difficult foreign language. Printed in Japan, where most of the VCRS sold in the U.S. are manufactured, and replete with technical jargon, these booklets often contain such impenetrable prose as the following: "Never connect the output of the [recorder] to an antenna or make simultaneous (parallel) antenna and [recorder] connections at the antenna terminals of your receiver...