Word: jargonizing
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...this context the actual questions of whether officers should be permitted to teach the jargon of the right and show "Operation Abolition" to their men seem relatively trivial. What matters is that McNamara's stand has illustrated with remarkable clarity that the government need not be defenseless against the McCarthys and the McCloeds; they are not agents of irresistible currents of history. Adherence to procedures with which every industrial executive is familiar is a useful safeguard against the demoralization of civilian and military officials who believe, as McNamara said after the Thurmond hearings, that the menace of Communism "comes more...
...Professor Talcott Parson's approach to a unified theory of jargon, also comes at 11, and will concern itself with his rigorous categorizations of organism, personality, social systems and cultural systems. More elementary logical structures will be expounded at the same hour by Professor Willard Quine, whose Philosophy 140 is a classic unproductive to deductive logic...
Similarly, the document considered left-wingers and "welfare statists" hopelessly naive and the pawns of capitalists, but allowed for cooperation with such misguided liberals to serve Communist ends. In the colonialist struggles, even local business groups (in Marxist jargon, "the nationalist bourgeoisie") still have a "progressive role" that is "not yet spent." An orthodox, old-fashioned Marxist theoretician might find some of this ambivalence not very well thought out as doctrine, even while conceding its usefulness as propaganda...
...would continue to improve retail sales, but added: "We foresee substantial growth, but not a sharp, runaway boom." President Robert S. Ingersoll of Borg-Warner Corp. looked for only a "gradual and minimal" upturn in durable goods. And Chairman James Price of National Homes Corp. wrapped his gloom in jargon: "Commercial construction, in our opinion, is enjoying what appears to be a terminal bulge in the current cycle. More and more cities have built their way into surplus office space...
...Undergraduate papers: "Fair only...full of jargon and approximation...unable to penetrate imaginatively beyond the immediate past." The more sophisticated papers were contaminated by Scholar-Speak. Papers were studded with the most recent vogue--words of college life. The average undergraduate--pretty mediocre...