Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gisela Bolte: "City fathers have hired a consultant in Switzerland to recruit other foreign companies. A Swiss firm that has developed a friction reducing process for machinery will soon open in Pittston. To make the community even more attractive, the local airport runway will soon be extended to accommodate jumbo jets. In addition, a 42-acre industrial park has been declared an international trade zone, where companies can set up assembly plants that will be exempt from U.S. customs duties so long as the products are exported. Schott's home-office executives find the Pittston employees industrious, hard working...
...reality. Last month Pan Am signed a $500 million contract with Lockheed for twelve wide-bodied TriStar L-1011s, and last week small, state-owned Singapore Airlines (SIA) stole Pan Am's headlines. It placed with Boeing the richest order in commercial aviation history: $900 million for 13 jumbo 747s and six medium-range 727s. Gleefully grabbing the record claimed weeks earlier by Lockheed executives, Boeing insisted: "This is the 'order of the century...
Russian officials have tried to counter charges of hip shooting by Soviet pilots by insisting that the 707 had taken evasive action "for more than two hours" before it was forced down. Meanwhile, Korean Air Lines announced that henceforth only new DC-10 jumbo jets would be used on the Seoul-Paris run. The DC-10 is equipped with a sophisticated inertial navigation system that is almost foolproof...
...breed bitter resentment. "Lawyers have become secular priests," says Fred Button, a White House aide in the Kennedy Administration and now a successful Washington, D.C., attorney. They are, agrees Berkeley Law Dean Sanford Kadish, masters of "a mysterious art form to which the layman is not privy, with mumbo jumbo going on." The heart of the art, of course, is the impenetrable language that lawyers use, sometimes at great length (a direct outgrowth of the English practice of paying lawyers by the word for their briefs, which were, as a result, rarely brief...
Still, the mumbo jumbo can intimidate and irritate the layman. Further resentment stems from the ability of excellent lawyers to muddle and obfuscate. Says Button: "Lawyers are paid to complicate, to keep a dispute alive, to make everything technical." The Washington, D.C., firm of Covington & Burling, for example, once delayed for twelve years a Food and Brug Administration ruling on the labeling of peanut butter jars. Said one Covington lawyer: "Certainly, there's something suspicious about a 24,000-page hearing transcript and close to 75,000 pages of documents on a case involving peanut butter." As Humorist Art Buchwald...