Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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CONTEXT Republicans have affectionately embraced this shorthand post-9/11. The military began issuing GWOT medals. John Kerry made notable use of the phrase in his '04 nomination speech...
...uphill both ways, photographers of distant lands lugged dozens of pounds of cameras and equipment every which way, and developed their negatives (gasp!) with chemicals (with what?) in the “field” (the what?). This drudgery is now largely myth (much like secretaries who write in shorthand), propagated by chroniclers of the few intrepid adventurers who braved photography’s inconvenience for its verisimilitude . Janet E. and Frederick R. Wulsin, Jr., explorers with the National Geographic Society, were such mythical characters. Their photographs, a selection of which are on display in the Peabody Museum?...
...rolled out bite-sized policy chunks on its major themes of education, child care, industrial relations, federalism and business regulation. The impasse between the Commonwealth and states is neatly captured by Rudd as a "blame game." Terms like "infrastructure" and "skills" are now in common use as shorthand for government failure. Just enough policy detail is being released to maintain momentum. But for now, at least, Labor's new pragmatism and micro policy steps limit the government's ability to slap it down...
...recent years, pastors' wives have found a place to vent. PWs (in electronic shorthand) from Fargo to Fiji reach out to and support one another in lively fellowship via Web-based networks, blogs and online discussion forums. On websites like PastorsWives.org SarahsTent.com and GPWN.tv, they share their thoughts on topics of unique interest, from the banal (recipe ideas for a mother-daughter prayer brunch) to the intimate (how to confront a pastor husband who is addicted to porn). When a Seattle pastor blogged that Ted Haggard's wife was to blame for his infidelity, PW chat boards...
...Russians, he is unrepentant: "It was a shock," says Ungr, who had been six times to the "Soyuz" (Russian shorthand for the Soviet Union), of what is now referred to as the 1968 Soviet occupation. "We were hugging them just moments ago and now we should fight? Those boys who came here, it was not their fault...