Word: jargon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a poignant story here, but Sheehy cannot tell it. Her banal prose and feeble attempts at social science reduce experience to jargon. Alternating her own trendy problems with accounts of Cambodian genocide seems bizarre, to say the least. An apt subtitle for this book might be The Lotus and the Narcissus...
Pundits and political scientists have a fancy, almost tongue-tying bit of jargon for this tendency: global unilateralism. That phrase has been bandied about by both admirers and critics of the Administration, as well as by others who are ambivalent about official American attitudes and behavior...
Furthermore, the complicated jargon of the VAX system so hastily memorized by frantic freshmen for the test is rarely even applicable to future use. Detailed command memorization obscures the underlying need for programming skills that students can apply to future encounters with technology. The VAX system, which connects all terminals to one main computer, frequently falls victim to system failures which halt the already rushed testing sessions and inconvenience test takers and graders...
...welter of offerings can leave many consumers befuddled. IRA ads often bristle with hype or technical jargon. Says Donald Underwood, vice president of retirement planning at Merrill Lynch, which holds 1.4 million IRAs: "Consumers are overwhelmed by the variety because there's a lot of smoke out there. They have to do their homework...
Zeig wisely urged the conference speakers to use English instead of professional jargon. Most complied, but there was still much talk of "accessing the self." The closest thing to a central idea was that the patient, or client, already has the answer to the problem deep within, and the therapist simply helps bring...