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| Title | Social Relations |
| Website URL | URL http://nickrenton.com/925.htm |
| Entry | First Prize The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power. - Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, in a 1997 article in the Diacritics journal entitled Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time |
| Submitted by | Nick Renton |
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| Title | Royal Commission |
| Website URL | URL http://nickrenton.com/925.htm |
| Entry | Second Prize One motive or complicating factor in relation to these failures in prudential standards may, of course, be of the kind of personal, social, domestic links that we've described flowing over and having an impact in relation to dealing with the persons in the capacity as a borrower, when there is a personal, domestic basis to the relationship that may have a causative effect in relation to how that borrower is assessed from the terms of prudential banking standards, or how the borrower's investment banking transaction is assessed from its prudential viewpoint. - Susan Crennan QC, addressing the Tricontinental Royal Commission |
| Submitted by | NIck Renton |
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| Title | An Enhanced Deterrent |
| Website URL | http://www.skepticfiles.org/silly/... |
| Entry | Why wouldn't an enhanced deterrent, a more stable peace, a better prospect to denying the ones who enter conflict in the first place to have a reduction of offensive systems and an introduction to defensive capability? |
| Submitted by | Richard Sampson |
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| Title | Family love (academic report) |
| Website URL | http://... |
| Entry | "An altruistic utility function promotes intertemporal efficiency." What? |
| Submitted by | Colette Diharce |
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| Title | Social Media Smackdown Brewing between Twitterville, Tribalization, Groundswell, Appvertising, and Cause Marketing |
| Website URL | http://richreader.blogspot.com/... |
| Entry | My blog post says it all: http://dinobaskovic.com/gobbledygook-20 |
| Submitted by | Dino Baskovic |
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| Title | Alan Greenspan enlightens Congress |
| Website URL | http://books.google.com/... |
| Entry | It is a tricky problem to find the particular calibration in timing that would be appropriate to stem the acceleration in risk premiums created by falling incomes without prematurely aborting the decline in the inflation-generated risk premiums. |
| Submitted by | Mary P. Jones |
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| Title | Like Fingernails on a Blackboard |
| Website URL | http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/... |
| Entry | "...at this point in time..." from the Department of Redundancy Department. It's either at this point or at this time. It is NOT at this point in time. |
| Submitted by | webwordslinger |
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| Title | Givenchy 593933 (Third Prize) |
| Website URL | http://www.zappos.com/... |
| Entry | Third Prize Bewildering wild beauty! Grasp the reigns of gorgeousness and masterfully maneuver through the macabre with the romantic secrets of this beautifully bewitching sandal by Givenchy™!
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Reasons for nomination: Gibberish, misspelling ("reigns" for "reins"), malapropisms (bewildering, macabre), gratuitous alliteration, gratuitous exclamation points, gratuitous trademark symbol. (I've written catalog copy for many years. This is easily the worst copy I've ever seen...and for shoes that originally cost $844.) |
| Submitted by | Nancy Friedman |
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| Title | British Borough Councils |
| Website URL | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/... |
| Entry | Using "coterminous stakeholder engagement" instead of "talking to people." |
| Submitted by | Anonymous |
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| Title | Oracle |
| Website URL | http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/... |
| Entry | Quote in news release: "...offerings are leading-edge service configuration assurance capabilities that will help us to rapidly deploy high-demand IP services, such as level 3 virtual private networks, multicast and quality of service over our IP/MPLS network." |
| Submitted by | Anonymous |
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| Title | British Airways |
| Website URL | http://www.the-writestuff.co.uk/... |
| Entry | Charges for changes and cancellations: Note-cancellations-before departure fare refundable. If combining a non-refundable fare with a refundable fare only the y/c/j-class half return amount can be refunded. After departure fare is refundable. If combining a non-refundable fare with a refundable fare refund the difference /if any/ between the fare paid and the applicable normal oneway fare." |
| Submitted by | Anonymous |
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| Title | Thought showers replace brainstorming |
| Website URL | http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/... |
| Entry | An example of political correctness gone mad. Change is due to the belief that the term brainstorming is offensive to epileptics. |
| Submitted by | Anonymous |
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