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...estimate of the current cost of replacing their inventories, plant and equipment. (Many of these companies are expected to mention the new figures in their annual reports to stockholders.) U.S. companies carry their assets on their books at their original cost-the "historic" cost, in accountants' lingo-with no provision for the impact of inflation over the years. But the addition of replacement-cost figures, the SEC argues, will provide a more realistic measure of the true worth of a company in an era of persisting inflation...
Christenson comes off as a woman with no scruples, someone who spends the whole film creating ridiculous yet effective shows hoping to produce a "50 share" (a sample of the technocratic lingo that she uses incessantly and incomprehensibly throughout the film). She goes on to team up with whore-number-three, senior vice president Frank Hackett (Robert Duvall), the technocrat who battles to the top, conducting a search and destroy mission against integrity...
...typical coach's lingo, Kemp concludes that "the game could go either way. We're ready to play physically and mentally...
...essential for every student who writes, but the label "journalism' here is like a red flag." Robbins said. "There's no course at Harvard where they can get the basic writing skills they'll need for any field they pursue. Political scientists spend four years writing the jargon, lingo and cliches they read in textbooks. A semester is all any good writer needs to learn to clear up ambiguity and imprecision...
Even if he quits dropping his post-vocalic rs, Jimmy Cot-tuh is likely to confuse Northerners from time to time-that is, from tahm to tahm-and increase other regions' interest in Southern lingo. Thus, in the spirit of both fun and information, TAHM offers this glossary of key words, by no means all Car-terese. Some are authentically South Georgian and others from different parts of the Deep South, some upper-class and others...