Word: select
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...mini-thesaurus of bafflegab, it consists of a three-column list of 30 overused but appropriately portentous words. Whenever a GS-14 or deputy assistant secretary needs an opaque phrase, he need only think of a three-digit number -any one will do as well as the next-and select the corresponding "buzz words" from the three columns. For example, 257 produces "systematized logistical projection," which has the ring of absolute authority and means absolutely nothing. Broughton's bafflegab guide...
Like Johnson, Humphrey has become distrustful of the press?although his condition is nowhere near so grave as the President's?and he has begun to open a credibility gap of his own. Like Johnson, he has been unable to select or attract really first-rate aides. With some exceptions, notably his newly appointed campaign manager, Larry O'Brien, his staff...
...about "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers." He urged that younger people, including some students and faculty, be made trustees (the average age is now 62). In filling a new vacancy, the board last week ignored this advice, passed over such proposed candidates as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark to select its usual type: Wall Street Investment Banker Harold A. Rousselot...
Googlies. But there are a select few Americans, possibly 5,000 in a handful of colleges and clubs, who understand the complexities of cricket. They think it rather keen to serve the batsman "googlies" and "yonkers" and play positions called "second slip," "gully" and "silly mid-on." What is more, the very best of them were over in England last week impertinently challenging the masters to a match. They got a hearty welcome. Except for the U.S., cricket has spread around the empire, with frequently embarrassing results. Twice running, in 1963 and 1966, the West Indies beat England in test...
...corporations, Britons were scarcely cheered to see another such move. What bothered them more was the way the takeover was handled. With the aid of two prestigious British financial advisers, Cazenove and Morgan Grenfell, American Tobacco scooped up a commanding 16.6% of Gallaher's shares by offering a select price to big shareholders. That, complained the City, violated Article Seven of the recently written "takeover code," which makes it unethical to make a purchase offer to some shareholders instead...