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  1.                                                                                 GRAPEVINE, Page 9WORD WATCH
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  3. By SIDNEY URQUHART
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  6.     Every election brings out its own peculiar jargon. Here's
  7. a sampling from the 1992 campaign lexicon:
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  10.     NARROWCASTING: Targeting a particular group or
  11. constituency. Not Bush and Baker fly-fishing in Wyoming.
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  13.     SPINLOCK: Total bewilderment at an unexpected development,
  14. as in how to react when Ross Perot drops out of the race.
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  16.     DEFINING MOMENT: A phrase few pundits have left unused
  17. this year.
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  19.     BLOW-DRIED: Think Clinton. Think Yuppie. Fortysomething.
  20. Boomer.
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  22.     SLEAZE: Any subject a candidate does not wish to discuss.
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  24.     BIMBO ERUPTION: See sleaze.
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