Word: shorthanded
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Journalists talk about the importance of the "ground game" in Iowa, which is shorthand for an organization's ability to schlep voters to the polls on caucus night. Journalists make scholarly pronouncements about which candidates have the best ground game, but here's a secret: journalists have no idea. In Algona, I spoke to Bill Farnham, a stockbroker, who praised the local Obama organizer, a young man named Nate Hundt, for really ingratiating himself with the community. But Clinton may have the dynamite organizer in Pella; Edwards, in Greenfield. Ground games are unknowable...
...powerful that the magazine has started rankings for pretty darn near everything that can be ranked—from hospitals to high schools. With respect to college rankings at least, which we are best positioned to judge, the rankings do far more harm than good. Any system of shorthand that tries to generalize the individual match between students and colleges—particularly through rankings—will fall flat. The qualities of a college include far more than statistics about retention rates, average SAT scores, and faculty-to-student ratios. The U.S. News ranking in particular encourages bad choices...
...mail to students, faculty and alumni announcing the change on Friday, Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 wrote that the lack of a consistent shorthand means that students, academics, and the media give the school a multiplicity of confusing nicknames...
...added that many sources had advised coming up with a definitive shorthand name...
...effort and supported a Democratic bill that - Limbaugh is salivating - House Republicans believe would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court, an institution founded to protect the rights of U.S. citizens only. (Democrats dispute this interpretation.) In the lethal shorthand of political advertising, it would give terrorists the same legal protections as Americans. That is well beyond stupid...