4 hours ago by deysaid

I have been following, or at least trying to follow, the Copenhagen climate talks ever since it began nearly two weeks ago. Wading through the viscous stream of jargons, I tried to make sense of the developments or the lack of it at the Danish capital, going through the news reports generated by the ...

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16 hours ago by Erik Deckers

Top 10 Phrases to Eliminate From Business Erik Deckers Laughing Stalk syndicate Copyright 2009 As a writer, I don't like trite phrases, marketing jargon, or clichés. So I was pleased to see a piece by Frances Cole Jones on CNN.com talking about her 10 worst business sayings. In my work as a marketer ...

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18 hours ago by Paul van Buuren

Gevonden in een woord-van-2009-lijstje op Elsevier: Doekoecratie -> Multiculti slang . Met ‘paaisubsidies’ kiezers in toom houden. Gebeurt vooral in door minderheden geregeerde Amsterdamse stads-delen. Doekoe is Surinaams voor geld. In de Bijlmer kregen acht Surinaamse, Antilliaanse en Ghanese clubs ...

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22 hours ago by gvk2

I hadn’t heard of this word , till I read it in The Hindu this morning . Which doesn’t mean that the word doesn’t exist. In fact, ‘incentivise’ is a word coined in 1968 and is recognised in OED and Merriam-Webster. But then a Google search showed up this entry under Urban Dictionary , which said the ...

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1 day ago by Online Success Plan

is it best to use my guard to trade currency money or a website such as www.forex.com? I am not just talking about 1 time currency adapt, im talking about doing it frequently should i do my trading with the hill or another source would be better? It’s better to use a Forex broker. This kind of… How ...

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1 day ago

Recently a colleague asked me how I might define Web 2.0 (two point oh). Since I always like a challenge, the first thing I thought about was my dear old dad. Even though my father worked on computers when 8K was the size of a refrigerator, he is not much for jargon. In conversation recently, I drop ...

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1 day ago by La Redaction

Sa tête est mise à prix contre forte récompense ; il a à ses trousses l’ensemble des forces de défense et de sécurité de la Guinée ; malgré tout, l’homme demeure insaisissable, car il reste introuvable depuis le jeudi 3 décembre 2009. Vous l’avez bien deviné, il s’agit bel et bien du lieutenant Toum ...

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1 day ago by t

Some are words and expressions that are misused. Others are simply meaningless filler words business people use to make themselves sound smarter. At the risk of channeling my Andy Rooney, here is some of my most despised corporate BS: Utilize. "Use" works just as well without sounding like you're tr ...

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2 days ago by mark

While reading over the table of contents of the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics that came in the mail today, I came across this intriguing title: “A Graphical Method for Dating Chicks Using Bivariate Body Measurements.” How you interpret “dating” makes all the diffe ...

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2 days ago by Brenton Nicholls

A worthwhile read this Christmas is Don Watson’s book, BENDABLE LEARNINGS: THE WISDOM OF MODERN MANAGEMENT. ‘Watson returns to his study of management language: the non-language that began in management theory and spread like an ineradicable weed into politics, the civil service, hospitals and class ...

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