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...Maryland firm that offers tax advice has run ads that warn DON'T BE ZOED -- As in Zoe Baird, the nominee for Attorney General, forced to withdraw partly because of tax problems. Here's a lexicon of other names we hope will find their way into English...
...implicit assumptions seems to govern Muhammad's logic. These assumptions relate either to his definition of "Western" or to his understanding of when Western history begins. In the cultural lexicon upon which we depend to communicate, "Western" is conceived as referring to the European/Mediterranean world. The role of Blacks in the early development of Western history was, therefore, necessarily limited. Contact with Africa remained confined to coastal regions as late as the year 1600 and de Gama did not even round the coast of Africa until 1498. In refusing this truth, perhaps Muhammad is implicitly asserting that the word "Western...
...imagine the fervent ideological objections: planned conversion, like planned anything, would be an "industrial policy," meaning "social engineering" in George Bush's lexicon, meaning socialism and leading straight to the gulag. But military pork-barreling is a kind of industrial policy itself, in which the "plan" seems to be that millions of Americans will make weapons or go without jobs. As for socialism, the military-industrial complex already represents a Soviet-style command economy in the midst of capitalism, a haven from the perils of the market, financed by public largesse...
Every election brings out its own peculiar jargon. Here's a sampling from the 1992 campaign lexicon...
...bankruptcy of Bush's urban record may mean that as "the spotlight of morality shifts from Clinton's personal failings to racial detente -- where Clinton has a clear advantage -- it is hard to see how it will not get hot for the man who introduced Willie Horton into the lexicon of American politics...