From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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Taxpayers face $1.7 billion bill as nuclear lab pensions soar
Washington Post, June 14, 2011
Lockheed Martin and other contractors that manage U.S. nuclear facilities stand to reap $1.7 billion in savings next year while the Energy Department pays for their ballooning employee pension costs.
The pension bills of the contractors, which include Bechtel Group and URS, are projected to more than double from $728 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 and increase almost 40-fold from $43 million in fiscal 2001, according to federal auditors.
..For-profit companies also make billions running the labs. Bechtel and Babcock & Wilcox are involved in managing Los Alamos, and Sandia, a unit of Bethesda-based Lockheed, has received $24.8 billion since 1999 to manage facilities including the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, according to Bloomberg data....
Don't count on those lab pension check from either LANS or LLNS in future decades.