Word: jargonizing
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...buyers take to the '63s, it will not be because of radical styling changes. Changes are few, though selling vocabulary has a new sound. Here is some of the jargon that customers will be hearing more of in Model Year...
...tinbenders"-local jargon for semiskilled aircraft workers-are packing up in droves and leaving the housing developments that sprawled around the city during the past few years...
When asked to characterize the present state of the economy-is it good? will it get worse?-the men who are closest to it take refuge in jargon. Economist George Cloos of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank prefers that ripe-sounding phrase "high-level stagnation." Swift & Co. Economist Willard Arant calls it "high-level stability." Professor J. Keith Butters of the Harvard Business School thinks that the economy is in "a sidewise movement" after "an inadequate recovery." One top corporate economist calls the present economy "a rolling kind of thing"; another figures it is in "a sputtering phase"; and still...
Young engineers set a strange contraption in the sunlight and watch it click and squirm and eerily point toward the sun. Colleagues gather to admire, their talk tangled with figures and newborn jargon. Nothing is simple at Goddard. In the corner of a control room is a small telephone switchboard attended by a bored young man. It looks as if it belonged in a flyblown small-town hotel, but it has a space-age name, SCAMA (Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement), and it is the center of the world's only global voice communication network. By flicking a switch...
...West calls for a worldwide network of 180 control posts-19 of them in Russia and 16 on U.S. territory-manned by international teams. In addition, flying squads of international inspectors would have the right to make at least twelve on-the-spot checks (known in disarmament jargon as "on-site"inspections) in Russia each year to investigate suspicious explosions. For instance, they would find out whether a given blast was a nuclear bang or a natural earthquake...