Word: gobbledygook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that "history" should be allowed to determine the status of the two Germanys, and he warned against any "artificial acceleration" of the "process of change." It was a telling caution coming from the Great Accelerator himself. Bush then flew off to Brussels, where he enunciated a masterpiece of gobbledygook, intended to sound receptive to German reunification someday far in the future. There was a similar better-later- than-soon tone to the endorsement that Kohl received over the weekend from the leaders of the European Community...
...concern in the gobbledygook of all these regulations is that we do not forget that there is a purpose to the parking freeze" said Vice-Mayor Alice K. Wolf. She added that the EPA regulation exists for reasons of "environmental protection and the health and safety of residents...
Funniest of all is Blackstone, who always shines, whether aping Ellard's childlike movement and speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue...
...made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic truths: the victim is considered a pariah because of his indifference to football and "masculine science," i.e., driveway resurfacing. He has yet to master doodah, the company version of gobbledygook, and he is too easily seducible by beautiful employees. Under the ministrations of expert torturers, he learns to babble meaninglessly about sports and domestic trivia, conquers the undesirable speech defects of Humblepause and Gropesounds and refuses to submit to uncorporate diversions like recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings...
...President portrayed tax reform as nothing less than "a second American Revolution." If enacted by Congress, he predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...