In fact, "component" has become a buzzword in the educational software community, with millions of dollars from the National Science Foundation and other sponsors funding a wide variety of "component-based" projects.
And doctors were encouraged to join the firm in "disease management", a buzzword for prevention rather than costly, traumatic cure.
In recent years, "trust" has become a buzzword in economics.
In recent years, entrepreneurship has become a buzzword in the Arab world, operating on the credo that business is an essential engine for social, economic and eventually political progress in the region.
Since then, federal and state governments have spent billions of dollars to rebuild critical infrastructure; hospitals and utilities providers have made major investments in climate security; and "resilience" has become a buzzword in philanthropic and policy circles.
Functional fashion has become something of a buzzword in the apparel industry in recent years, and that is partly the result of marketing aimed at keeping consumers engaged with clothing that is designed to be disposable.
"Quality" is a buzzword in many industries ― but in health care, it's lumped in with "safety," since poor quality can lead to much more than just customer dissatisfaction.
Mr Blair, who said that the priority of Britain's presidency had indeed been to bring the Union closer to the people, was swift to claim that here too he was winning with his agenda.Yet although subsidiarity, coined at a summit in 1992 and woven into the Amsterdam treaty last year, was a buzzword in Cardiff, Europeans still disagree about what it means.
Though talent management has been a buzzword in the boardroom for years now, in many organizations, it still has not progressed beyond the traditional notion of personnel administration.
"The Internet of Things," which merges cloud computing with radio-frequency identification, wireless sensors, and other forms of embedded intelligence to develop the next generation of networked "smart" devices, has become a buzzword in China, giving rise to investors' guides, articles in the popular press, and a slew of dedicated websites.
