Word: jargonizing
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...little whimsy can be worth a thousand points of B-school jargon. In Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment (Harmony Books; 200 pages; $17.95), consultant William Byham uses knights, dragons and a machine that hurls people into the 12th dimension to spice his lively treatise on energizing workers. The point of the fable is to show how sharing power with workers can revitalize an entire company...
...really a visionary," says Arthur Levitt Jr., former head of the American Stock Exchange and a Guggenheim board member. "But he's breaking some eggs in the art community." Krens' business-school jargon and management style offend many in the traditionally genteel, nonprofit world of museums. Says Hilton Kramer, editor of the New Criterion, a monthly arts review: "Krens has so far proven himself to be a complete disaster. His conception of a museum is all about expansion. He's a perfect example of what happens to a major cultural institution when it is given over to a bureaucrat...
...TIME photographer Greg Davis and I were in Hanoi for our first meeting with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others...
...grade scale, therefore, shouldn't be our first consideration. Undergraduates should be exempt from the academic theory feeding frenzy. While we are learning to write papers, we should make an attempt to say what we think first. Academic honesty should be our only priority. Let us not bow to jargon-jockeying this early in our lives...
...three a.m., I always wimp out and opt for jargon-jockeying because I think that my TF will like...