Word: short-circuited
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...perhaps, the Administration seemed to be giving its El Salvador policy statements a more temperate emphasis. When he appeared before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week, Secretary Shultz was calm and steady while under fire from both Republicans and Democrats. He insisted that "we will not support negotiations that short-circuit the democratic process and carve up power behind the people's backs...
...less radical members of the Marxist-led rebel movement that is trying to overthrow the regime. But the U.S. would not, Shultz stressed, offer the guerrillas a share of power that they had not won at the ballot box. Said he: "We will not support negotiations that short-circuit the democratic process and carve up power behind people's back...
Such perceptions spare readers the task of puzzling them out. They short-circuit thought, plugging directly into prefabricated images. And they are by no means limited to young characters. The narrator of The Body, Gordon Lachance, shares King's age, 34, and occupation: he is a "bestselling novelist who is more apt to have his paperback contracts reviewed than his books." He tells of an adventure he had in 1960, when he was twelve; he and three friends set out to discover the body of a boy who has been reported missing from a neighboring town in southwestern Maine...
...trouble with loaded words is that they tend to short-circuit thought. While they may describe something, they simultaneously try to seduce the mind into accepting a prefabricated opinion about the something described. The effect of one laden term was incidentally measured in a recent survey of public attitudes by the Federal Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. The survey found that many more Americans favor governmental help for the poor when the programs are called "aid to the needy" than when they are labeled "public welfare." And that does not mean merely that some citizens prefer H/2O to water...
...agency counterintelligence supervisor in Chicago, Poland is particularly active in the pirating of corporate data. Says Kaiser: "While the Soviet KGB gets all the press, Polish intelligence is perhaps superior. They, however, could care less about military intelligence; they want economic and scientific secrets. Their objective is to short-circuit development costs and undersell us." And, as the Zacharski case suggests, they are good at finding friends in the right places...