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alligator economics n. One reason why the wage-earning middle class increasingly can’t afford California is that wages, adjusted for inflation, have been stagnant for two decades. In the same time, the percentage of income needed to pay for rent, healthcare and child care has spiraled. Economists call this “alligator economics,“ because wages are a horizontal or falling line, while costs rise like an alligator’s upper jaw. (May. 19, 2004) [full citation…]

spargelzeit n. They call the annual season of madness spargelzeit, or asparagus time. (May. 19, 2004) [full citation…]

browning v. I am what Jamaicans call a “Browning”…So what is a “Browning” exactly. I am a Jamaican of mixed ethnicity. (May. 18, 2004) [full citation…]

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…]

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