Word: jargonized
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...Sears Tower in Chicago, the world's tallest office building (110 stories), executives are busily devising ways to entice Sears shoppers into buying more and more with each visit to a store-"leveraging off the customer base," in Sears jargon. In the ultimate one-stop shopping, it is now possible at many Sears stores to buy a house, pick all the needed furniture and appliances and then take out insurance on the whole bundle. On a more usual level, says Edward Brennan, 50, who is in charge of the giant
...enduring act of faith for all Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt that somewhere within their Soviet counterparts is the same human stuff they possess and that if they can touch it, there will follow some understanding. They write letters and wait. Mostly they are disappointed. The replies are boilerplate committee jargon. Roosevelt did a little better with Stalin because they were allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying to consolidate...
...that search lies the profundity of Rabe's work. The playwright is functioning here as far more than a realist with an unsurpassed ear for contemporary speech. What he is saying, finally, is that words have begun to fail. The vocabulary in which his people speak, a jargon derived from televised reductions of reality and popularized psychology, leaves them without the tools they need to know their own minds, let alone the complexities of their shared existence. The bitterest of the many laughs Rabe provides derives from his recognition that the relentless articulateness of his people is only...
...field of arms control is cluttered with jargon, acronyms and initials. Here is a guide to the more important and inescapable terms...
...Kodak cameras starting in 1888. Today, however, the owner of a new video cassette recorder or some other electronic wonder must turn to an instruction manual to get his machine working. But that is often when the trouble begins: the consumer opens a booklet to find a compilation of jargon, gibberish and just plain confusion. "There is a major disease in this country called wall-stare," says Sanford Rosen, president of Communication Sciences, a Minneapolis consulting firm. "When people read a computer manual, they just want to put it down and stare at the wall for as long as possible...