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...probably one of his last acts as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dan Rostenkowski and the fictitious couple's sponsor, the Health Insurance Association of America, agreed to soften one of the planks in the Clinton plan, a concept called community rating. That piece of jargon, which refers to the averaging of health-insurance premiums across a community, has just the sort of wonkish ring that would have made Harry and Louise grimace...
...chief executive is performing fiscal triage. Urban reformers from both parties have fixed on programs grounded in austerity, responsibility, safer streets and the wooing of business through lower taxes. Managers rather than politicians, they apply private-sector solutions to chronic urban woes and switch over to the technocratic jargon without pause. Such savants include Bret Schundler of Jersey City, New Jersey, Frank Jordan of San Francisco, and Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis, Indiana, the so-called Prince of Privatization, who refers to his citizens as "customers." Goldsmith believes in "marketizing" his city -- making every sector of it more competitive. He adds...
...paper released yesterday is based on ayear's worth of data collected by running theFermilab's accelerator at an energy of 17 billionelectron-volts. Top quark sightings during theyear, or "events" in physics jargon, generatederuptions of excitement among scientists, saidHuth, a self-dubbed "top godfather" in dataanalysis...
...basic pillars, it seems of the condition of being an object, and in between the four major "moments" there lies "fetishism, aura, measurement, and embellishment." This might seem like a lot to swallow on a leisurely visit to the Fogg to check out some paintings, and the preponderence of jargon in a visual exhibit is certainly a turn-off, but Dilnot's choice to include these guides (the "four moments" are writ large on the walls of the gallery) is actually very helpful. They provide a very specific context for the objects, and without them it might be more difficult...
...Internet is not ready for prime time. There are no TV Guides to sort % through the 5,000 discussion groups or the 2,500 electronic newsletters or the tens of thousands of computers with files to share. Instead of feeling surrounded by information, first-timers ("newbies" in the jargon of the Net) are likely to find themselves adrift in a borderless sea. Old-timers say the first wave of dizziness doesn't last long. "It's like driving a car with a clutch," says Thomas Lunzer, a network designer at SRI International, a California consulting firm. "Once you figure...