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Lee y escucha

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Rosas

Apellido originario de Laredo, en Santander, también tiene las formas Rosa y Rozas. Ramas de esta familia pasaron a Vizcaya, Andalucía y Navarra. Otra se estableció en Badajoz. Caballeros de este apellido se distinguieron en la guerra contra los moros. De esta familia descendía el gobernador de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, brigadier Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rozas y López de Osornio (1793-1877). El escudo de este linaje está formado por una torre de oro en campo de gules, con una escala a su derecha y surmontada por una estrella de oro.

http://www.elcastellano.org

www.delarrago.com/her/ape/apellidos_R.htm

Placebo

'Agradaré'. Se aplica en medicina al medicamento que no ejerce ningún efecto clínico sobre el paciente, pero no le hace daño y lo tranquiliza, haciéndolo sentirse atendido.

http://www.elcastellano.org

Expedición

Así como impedire significaba en latín obstaculizar el paso de alguien trabándolo con los pies (pes, pedis), expedición (expeditio, onis) tenía el significado etimológico de 'ejecutar algo con los pies'. Para los romanos, expedire pasó a tener una connotación bélica, pues las expediciones militares eran realizadas por el expeditus, como se denominaba en latín el escuadrón ligero.

El verbo expedio expresaba, por tanto, la idea de 'abrirse camino', de 'franquear', de 'vencer resistencias', de la cual surgió el sentido de hacer algo 'en forma expeditiva', esto es, de manera rápida y sin trabas de ninguna especie.

http://www.elcastellano.org/palabra.php

Jargon

If you got a letter saying that local officials 'wish to engage you as a stakeholder', who could blame you if you thought it was a marriage proposal or even an offer to employ you as a barbecue chef?! In this week's programme, William joins Yvonne as she finds out about an attempt at jargon-busting - getting rid jargon.

This week's question: Which British Prime Minister was known as 'Jack the Jargon Killer' because he wanted officials to stop using jargon?

a) Tony Blair
b) Robert Peel
c) Winston Churchill

Listen out for the answer to this question at the end of the programme!

Vocabulary from the programme

jargon
Words and expressions which are used in a technical or special way by a group of people in certain situations or places of work

councils
local government

councillors
members of councils who people have elected or voted for to make decisions about what happens in their area

stake-holder engagement
speaking to, liaising with and getting the attention of people or organisations that have an interest in and are important to a specific project

a civic amenity site
a place which is used by the general public

a rubbish tip
a place where dirt, refuse and things that people no longer need are left

to embrace something
to accept, welcome and enjoy something

the vernacular
slang or informal language

shorthand
a quick way to write, say or do something

to flag up
to bring attention to

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Extras
Download this programme (mp3 - 2.8 MB)
Programme script (pdf - 39 K)

Related Links

Jack the Jargon Killer article *
Article on list of jargon*

President Clinton impeached

December 19, 1998

After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.

In November 1995, Clinton began an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 21-year-old unpaid intern. Over the course of a year and a half, the president and Lewinsky had nearly a dozen sexual encounters in the White House. In April 1996, Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon. That summer, she first confided in Pentagon co-worker Linda Tripp about her sexual relationship with the president. In 1997, with the relationship over, Tripp began secretly to record conversations with Lewinsky, in which Lewinsky gave Tripp details about the affair.

In December, lawyers for Paula Jones, who was suing the president on sexual harassment charges, subpoenaed Lewinsky. In January 1998, allegedly under the recommendation of the president, Lewinsky filed an affidavit in which she denied ever having had a sexual relationship with him. Five days later, Tripp contacted the office of Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, to talk about Lewinsky and the tapes she made of their conversations. Tripp, wired by FBI agents working with Starr, met with Lewinsky again, and on January 16, Lewinsky was taken by FBI agents and U.S. attorneys to a hotel room where she was questioned and offered immunity if she cooperated with the prosecution. A few days later, the story broke, and Clinton publicly denied the allegations, saying, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."

In late July, lawyers for Lewinsky and Starr worked out a full-immunity agreement covering both Lewinsky and her parents, all of whom Starr had threatened with prosecution. On August 6, Lewinsky appeared before the grand jury to begin her testimony, and on August 17 President Clinton testified. Contrary to his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual-harassment case, President Clinton acknowledged to prosecutors from the office of the independent counsel that he had had an extramarital affair with Ms. Lewinsky.

In four hours of closed-door testimony, conducted in the Map Room of the White House, Clinton spoke live via closed-circuit television to a grand jury in a nearby federal courthouse. He was the first sitting president ever to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. That evening, President Clinton also gave a four-minute televised address to the nation in which he admitted he had engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky. In the brief speech, which was wrought with legalisms, the word "sex" was never spoken, and the word "regret" was used only in reference to his admission that he misled the public and his family.

Less than a month later, on September 9, Kenneth Starr submitted his report and 18 boxes of supporting documents to the House of Representatives. Released to the public two days later, the Starr Report outlined a case for impeaching Clinton on 11 grounds, including perjury, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering, and abuse of power, and also provided explicit details of the sexual relationship between the president and Ms. Lewinsky. On October 8, the House authorized a wide-ranging impeachment inquiry, and on December 11, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment. On December 19, the House impeached Clinton.

On January 7, 1999, in a congressional procedure not seen since the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, the trial of President Clinton got underway in the Senate. As instructed in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (William Rehnquist at this time) was sworn in to preside, and the senators were sworn in as jurors.

Five weeks later, on February 12, the Senate voted on whether to remove Clinton from office. The president was acquitted on both articles of impeachment. The prosecution needed a two-thirds majority to convict but failed to achieve even a bare majority. Rejecting the first charge of perjury, 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted "not guilty," and on the charge of obstruction of justice the Senate was split 50-50. After the trial concluded, President Clinton said he was "profoundly sorry" for the burden his behavior imposed on Congress and the American people.

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