Word: jargonized
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That deceptively bland bit of bureaucratic jargon has become a fighting slogan since Lyndon Johnson made it Government policy in an Executive Order signed in 1965. The order spelled out how the Government would enforce the prohibitions against bias in employment that had been written into the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In its mildest interpretation, affirmative action merely requires an employer to attempt to recruit women, blacks, Hispanics and others for jobs usually held by white males. But courts and previous Administrations have increasingly enforced a sterner standard: employers must set numerical goals and timetables-hiring or promoting...
...college-educated actress: "When I read the book, it elicited an emotional reaction in me and I determined to re-create it for someone else through thinking and design, thought and craft. The arc I designed for the character went up and happened." Then the arc-and-craft jargon drops away, and she says a bit wistfully: "Watching the film, I couldn't help wishing that I was more beautiful. There comes a point when you have to look the part, especially in movies. In Victorian literature, passion, an illicit feeling, was always represented by darkness. I'm so fair...
...jargon of the video revolution, this exotic antenna and its associated electronics are called an earth station, and the price is just as fancy as the name: from $3,500 to $14,000 for a good unit. The high tab is for high tech. An earth station pulls in a signal from one of the twelve U.S. and Canadian communication satellites beaming down from a fixed position 22,300 miles above the equator-what vid-whizzes call a "geosynchronous orbit." The signal is focused into an amplifier, which magnifies it up to 100,000 times before it is converted...
...arms experts, Minuteman, the principal American intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) since the mid-1960s, has become an exposed target-and therefore conceivably a temptation-for a pre-emptive Soviet attack. And if the 1,000 Minuteman missiles are no longer safe, the nation may not be either. In the jargon of nuclear deterrence, Minuteman is believed to have lost the vital requirement of survivability, meaning the ability to survive, and retaliate against, a Soviet first strike. Instead, Minuteman has acquired, in the eyes of its proprietors, a reputation for vulnerability...
...idiom that represents a bridge between postwar formalism and the new conservatism of the past decade. As a young man in the '60s, he was strongly influenced by a pervasive emphasis on form. Music was supposed to be highly organized. "Gestures," "events" and "new sounds," to use the jargon of the period, preoccupied composers as they sought new ways of structuring pieces-often forgetting that music should appeal to more than the intellect. Harbison struggled to combine innovative musical architecture with his lifelong love of melody...