Word: paradeigma
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Paradigm has become a buzz word for theorists of the emerging world. The term, from the Greek paradeigma, means an example, a model, a pattern. People in business schools, in think tanks, in the White House, use paradigm as a sort of reality thresher -- a way of comparing past and present, an implement for sorting out history at a moment of tumbling global change. Paradigm is a buzz word that does not sing, of course, but never mind. Buzz words, being often tricky, insincere or brainless, are part of the Old Paradigm anyway...