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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…]

parkitecture n. It’s the first example of what came to be called “parkitecture.“ That means it’s designed to blend in with its surroundings, made almost entirely of logs and stones obtained locally at Yellowstone. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

Japan surpassing n. These days, the phrase floating around to characterize the world’s second largest economy is “Japan surpassing”—praise for a country that has far exceeded American expectations as a reliable ally standing behind U.S. efforts in Iraq. (May. 17, 2004) [full citation…]

writethru n. In wire service parlance, a “writethru” is a new version of an existing news story that updates, clarifies, adds context and corrects mistakes of fact or syntax, even down to the lowly comma. (May. 16, 2004) [full citation…]

ganga n. Maras es la forma en que son llamadas en América Central, mientras que gangas es una palabra en “spanglish” que viene de la palabra inglesa “gang” y que significa “pandilla”…En Estados Unidos hay numerosas pandillas hispanas, las dos principales son la “Mara Salvatrucha” conocida como “MS” o “MS-13” y la “18 Street.“ (May. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

mud n. I am up early because the workers are supposed to be here soon to begin pouring our new concrete driveway. The “mud” as they call it is supposed to arrive at 7 am. (May. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

lex genetica n. Just as the novel term lex informatica describes the deployment of technological constraints on electronic information as a source of policy, the neologism lex genetica expresses the same idea with respect to bioengineered constraints on genetic information. In short, “information is information, whether the medium is a double helix or an optical disk.“ (May. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

interwang n. Many admit they do not even know the official Mandarin word for DVD or CD. The mixing up of languages is also increasing, with words such as “interwang”, which means internet, in common parlance. (May. 14, 2004) [full citation…]

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