EDITORIAL ARNOLD FOR CLARITY.THE man to bring easily understood, clear speaking to California government may turn out to be - oh, no! - Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] . Whoever would have guessed? The governor's California Performance Review includes provisions that would purge To eliminate or delete. state documents of all the bureaucrat-speak, jargon, legalese legalese - Dense, pedantic verbiage in a language description, product specification, or interface standard; text that seems designed to obfuscate and requires a language lawyer to parse it. and nonsensical acronyms. Californians waste countless hours each year trying to make sense of complicated forms. And taxpayers spend millions operating 800 numbers for Californians looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. plain-English translations of incomprehensible documents. Of course, efforts to make state government more clear have been around for a long while. But maybe Schwarzenegger is the one to make it happen. Maybe he can finally produce a state government that's easy to understand - even if it speaks with an Austrian accent. |
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