Date:    Tue, 3 Mar 1998 07:18:36 -0500
<br>From:    Fred Shapiro  fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU 
<br>Subject: Re: Business terms (hot potato, dead cat, copper)
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<br>On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Bapopik wrote:
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<br>  Washington, of course.  The headlines and subheads for the stories and
<br>  editorials use the latest buzzwords.  The 90 years (up to Nexis) might seem
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<br>Let me amend my last message.  If interesting terms appear in headlines
<br>and subheads, then the abstracts on Nexis going back to the late 1960s
<br>might well be useful for tracing word-usages.  Even if terms appear in the
<br>body of the Wall Street Journal articles rather than in headlines, the
<br>abstracts probably track the language of the stories pretty well and might
<br>pick up interesting terms.
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<br> Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
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