Word: jargoning
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...revision as more and more people use their homes as places for computerized work. In experimental projects across the U.S., several hundred clerical and professional workers have agreed to abandon the office and work at home on computer terminals electronically linked to their firms' office computers. In management jargon they are "telecommuting" and work at "flexiplaces...
...works with express-train speed and almost never lets an interview become repetitive. He thinks faster and more subtly than most other television reporters, yet always does his homework and never seems to be using his wit just to score points. Well versed in the details and jargon of Washington, he nonetheless talks about ideas in layman's terms; he often says that one must not overestimate the audience's specific knowledge or underestimate its intelligence. His most difficult feat is avoiding the twin pitfalls of overaggressiveness and overfamiliarity. Says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick...
Even the scientists are portrayed with an astonishing diversity of styles; at different times Van Loon pictures Francis Crick and James Watson, discoverers of the double helix structure of DNA, as Bat. In addition, the comic book format in the only one in which the arcane and often ridiculous jargon of molecular biology makes sense...
...College students today think and speak in a jargon of nihilism," Allan Bloom, professor of political philosophy at the University of Chicago, told an audience of 100 last night at the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics Forum...
...adversary relationship unique in history and, appropriately, an entire new vocabulary has been created to describe it. Some of the words are little more than political science jargon; many have become household terms. Together, they offer a surprisingly complete record of the ups and downs that have marked U.S.-Soviet relations in the 38 years since the two countries emerged as superpowers. The main entries in the U.S.-Soviet lexicon...