Word: jargonized
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...anyone ever know the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne or Haguenau?" This is the unofficial credo of Brothers. If you weren't there, it is determined to put you there--to hammer you with explosions, jargon and blood until you cry uncle, until at last...
...nudging 40, he not only succeeded in culling stem cells from "surplus" embryos created at fertility clinics but also kept them alive and reproducing indefinitely. In effect, he stopped their biological clocks by preventing the cells from morphing into different tissues, as they would in undisturbed embryos. In the jargon of cell research, they were immortal. Only a few days later, fellow stem-cell researcher John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University published word that he had succeeding in cultivating a line of stem cells from the germ cells of aborted fetuses--though he graciously conceded that Thomson was ahead...
...Uses jargon that outsiders don't understand...
...cover of the "Sgt. Pepper" album. Hill emphasizes that Southern created the "grand guy" persona to deal with an innate shyness; Southern's collaborator Nelson Lyon is quoted as saying that as Southern grew older, he became a victim of his alter ego, "trapped in the cliches and hip jargon" that defined him in the eyes of friends and colleagues...
...black SUV, where Bloomberg radio was playing and a Bloomberg magazine was tucked into a seat pocket, Bloomberg dismissed those stories. "As long as they spell my name right, fine," he says with a shrug. "I've got to learn the issues, learn how to dialogue, learn the jargon," he admits. Former Mayor Ed Koch thinks Bloomberg is admitting too much. "That's the wrong thing to say," sighs Koch. "Running for mayor is not an on-the-job learning operation...