Word: lexicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...polls showed that the health-care sales pitch wasn't working. What the President had been saying since September about his reform plan had done as much to confuse the public as inform it. And confusion had only helped his opponents. Thus, largely absent in the new White House lexicon will be references to "universal coverage," "insurance-purchasing alliances" and "employer mandates." In their place, Clinton is using the phrases "guaranteed private insurance," "real insurance reform" and "health benefits guaranteed at work." The reason: the new phrases were test-marketed in public-opinion research by Stanley Greenberg, the outside consultant...
...used to excess. But they can also be used for extremely beneficial purposes." It will be up to watchdogs in government and on Wall Street to ensure that the beneficial side of derivatives prevails, and that they do not follow pyramid schemes and savings and loan deals into the lexicon of American financial bubbles that burst...
...must lie and cheat, seduce and steal--in short, flout every moral convention known to man--if he is to be of service to his country. Yet, at the same time, society reserves some of its sharpest moral condemnation for the spy who turns against his country. The lexicon of spying is at once pathologically amoral and sanctimoniously ethical...
...when Leleina doesn't want him to move into her apartment and he replies, "What, is Mr. Roper gonna show up?" Any character aspiring to be the defining figure of my generation should be held to a much more sophisticated standard of involvement with the "Three's Company" lexicon...
...Germs Lexicon Devil...