Word: jargonish
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...work. The quality of decisions they make is not dependent entirely on their judgment, Bok says. It is "critically dependent on the information these agencies receive." Daly is most important to the administration, Bok says, because he has an understanding of the informational processes within the government. In less jargonish terms, that means Daly can simply pick up the phone and immediately get through to people like the influential Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D.-Mass.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) to explain the impact of a manpower bill on medical schools or the effect...
...influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...
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