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med-mal n. This polarized description of the medical malpractice crisis is unfortunate because there is nothing simple about “med-mal.” (May. 18, 2004) [full citation…]

plog n. Why wouldn’t it make sense for an IT project manager to post a blog—or “plog” (project log)—to keep her team and its constituents up-to-date on project issues and concerns? (May. 18, 2004) [full citation…]

sabi talk n. Collier is a man who is ingrafted with what is called in local parlance “sabi talk” (sweet tongued), he has been observed to be complaining so much. He frequently quarrelled with Mr. Solomon Berewa while he was Attorney General and Minister of Justice. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

LGBTQQ n. It can be used to describe both gender identity and sexual orientation and increasingly is being used in a new, wide-ranging alphabet soup—LGBTQQ, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning in Youth Pride’s case, or in the case of the Rhode Island Foundation’s “Meet the Neighbors” report released last year, LGBTQ, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited (a Native American reference), queer and questioning. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

flat adj. Bryan Herta needed just four laps to get “flat,” racing parlance for feeling comfortable enough in a car to press the gas pedal and not let up. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

partyocracy n. Last March Castañeda announced his candidacy with defiant suggestions that he is entitled to run for the presidency as an independent, without a party, regardless of what Mexico’s electoral laws might say. And he threatened to take whatever legal measures might be needed in a counteroffensive against the “partyocracy,” to use his neologism. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

reconservadox n. For Michelson, who borrows a friend’s terminology to describe himself as “reconservadox,” Nimoy’s work explores the sensuality in spirituality and the spirituality in sensuality. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

doosra n. Perth-based biomechanics experts subsequently tested him and initially found he straightened his bent arm by 14 percent in bowling a delivery tagged the “doosra.” The doosra is a delivery which spins away from right-handers instead of coming into them like a normal off-break. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

alpha n. What, exactly, do investors think they are buying when they hire investment managers such as hedge fund general partners? They would probably say something like “the ability to outperform the market”. In professional investor parlance, that is called “alpha”, or the excess returns that the general partner’s skill at active management provides. He knows from number crunching that Ford bonds would come back from the dead, or that nickel inventories were too high. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

supersize v. He has not exactly burned up the track with new hits. Instead he got by with a rope-a-dope act, finding stopgap shows like “Weakest Link” and squeezing out ratings with tactics like stretching the running time of his remaining hits— “supersizing,” in his parlance. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

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