hotel journalism n.— «Leonard Doyle, foreign editor of The Independent in London, said, “we make a big effort not to do what you might call “hotel journalism,” and we make a very big effort not to sub-contract work to...
dooce v.— «With dozens of blogs springing up in Britain every day, many work related, doocing is a risk for online diarists. The word was coined after a Los Angeles web designer, Heather Armstrong, lost her job in 2002 after telling...
predictomics n.— «The NCTR also plans to attach a module with chemical structures and a text-mining module that can be used for predictions. It has coined the term “predictomics” to describe the field of toxicoinformatics and...
boots on the ground n.pl.— «Many American strategists now argue that even light, token US land forces—”getting US combat boots on the ground,” as General Warner puts it—would signal to an enemy that the US is physically...
bac n.— «Now, all the inspectors were really doing was assessing health risk, watching your bacteria (or “bac” as they call it), identifying environs in which it peaked and coaxing those food retailers to improve their outlets...
Healthy Mae n.— «Bush campaign officials said they had no comment on the Frist proposal. That plan envisions a federally chartered but privately run reinsurance organization, analogous to the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae mortgage companies...