I was tossing around ideas with my mom and she suggested moving away from the scoring terminology and using general tennis jargon (RETURN OF THE JEDI was her contribution).
Their job was to provide "intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance" support – ISR in military jargon – "general operational advice" and to help set up a live satellite feed from American drones flying overhead, presumably CIA-operated Predator and Reaper aircraft.
But, true to his commando training, the general has, in the jargon of Western diplomats, "retaken the initiative".
"In the face of uncountable discrimination, harassment, violence, and the general menace of sexist jargon, we have gritted our teeth and gotten on with the job.
"Use specific words (red and blue)," says Waterhouse, "not general ones (brightly coloured)." Jargon, abbreviations, acronyms and know-all foreign phrases All of us who work in organisations, professions, specific industries or bureaucracies are surrounded by jargon.
Four years after that F.B.I. report was written, the word sleeper moved from spookspeak jargon into the general language.
But that only shows hedge-fund returns are not just dependent on skill ("alpha", in the jargon) but on general market movements ("beta").
It was possible, of course, to find cascades of political polemic as well as overweening jargon, but in general, assertions tended to be more modulated and variations plentiful.
Jargon aside, the general interpretation is that WorldCom will be restructured to look a lot like AT&T, which also recently announced it would restructure the company around its four business divisions.
Readers tend to invoke three general strategies while reading a jargon-rich medical or scientific document.
