Word: jargonized
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...Economics,†better known as Ec 10, the introductory course in economics that is one of the most popular courses at the College. But even those who have never crowded into Sanders Theater each year for an Ec 10 lecture often use terms taken from economics jargon...
Historically, Starbucks has done a great job at balancing new ideas with efficiency, says Frances Frei, a professor at Harvard business school who has studied the company. A classic example: the way it trains us to order in Starbucks jargon, grande this and half-caff that. Serving tens of thousands of possible drink combinations would be an operational nightmare were it not for a regimented logic to ordering, a marketing flourish that helps establish the atmosphere of an Italian café. "The fight in any company is [that] marketing wants more things for the customer and operations wants less," says Frei...
...There was also much scrutinizing of jargon. Justice Antonin Scalia questioned the districts' use of the terms "segregation" and "racial isolation." "If you belong to a country club that has 15% black members, I would not consider that a segregated country club," he said. "You're complaining about a lack of racial balance...
Having worked at the White House and run the CIA, Gates will manage the budgets, bureaucrats, jargon and generals on the Pentagon's E-Ring easily enough. But he will be judged by only one rule: whether he can organize what a Baker aide calls "the orderly transition and exit from Iraq." Someone who has worked with him describes Gates as "serious, subtle, reflective, never curt or abrupt." Departing CIA directors are flooded with offers of corporate jobs and strategic intelligence posts. Instead, when Gates left government in early 1993, he fled to Washington State, where he spent the next...
...Fight the Power†in his 1989 classic “Do The Right Thing.†Arguably, gangster rappers have become some of the most conspicuous consumers of Hollywood myth; their whole genre is shot through with mob flick clichés and jargon. Movies like “Scarface†and “New Jack City†left an indelible mark on a generation of rappers struggling to find the vocabulary to describe their own landscape of urban violence; in the introduction to “Welcome to the Terrordome...