Word: jargonized
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Bush assuaged Abdullah's concerns, but Sept. 11 raised tensions anew. U.S. grumbling about a lack of Saudi cooperation in the war on terrorism quickly escalated into calls in Congress for Washington to consider reducing its presence at the Prince Sultan Air Base (P-SAB in military jargon), where the U.S. has 6,000 Air Force personnel patrolling Iraqi skies. The problem was initial Saudi hesitation in allowing the Pentagon to use a new U.S.-built command-and-control center at P-SAB to conduct the drive against bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan. Known as the Combined...
...United States which engages and challenges readers in spite of, or perhaps even because of its highly academic approach. Loury’s unique style blends abstract philosophical discourse with the terminology of the social sciences. He writes logically and eloquently, rarely succumbing to the pitfalls of technical jargon, and knows when a colloquialism or concrete example will bring his point home. The one significant weakness in The Anatomy of Racial Inequality is the distance that it deliberately puts between itself and the day-to-day, concrete world. On one level, this means that his language is sometimes too subtle...
...demands would be but a dent in Harvard’s massive endowment. Occupation presents the protesters as engaging in an ideological battle against a reactionary and frustratingly immobile monolith. Previous attempts at negotiating with administrators, the film shows, were met by the apathetic drone of bureaucratic jargon...
...Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren’t, but they all try to believe they can pull themselves through, mostly by projecting a sort of intense overconfidence that is betrayed by the desolation of their breakneck, endlessly jargon-filled speech...
...money isn't in the translating--a labor-intensive commodity enterprise with slim margins. The profits are in the value-added services: managing the logistic and engineering headache of converting software, websites and other products for users from Seoul to Santiago. The process, in industry jargon, is called localization, and as more American companies market in disparate parts of the world, it's become an increasingly complex task outside their core competency. "Two-thirds of American companies now handle their own localization," says Robert Johnson, head of BGS's parent, Bowne & Co., the large financial printing firm. "That's about...