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It pays to increase your word power. Iatrogenic, for example, is medico-legal jargon meaning “physician-caused.” It’s a useful term in Washington, where problems caused by people who set out to cure them are 90 per cent of the public business.

Take unemployment. If there is one thing the Federal Government is supposed to be in charge of, it is combatting unemployment. Legislation is on the books which says the policy of the government is to “utilize all its plans, functions, and resources” to reach the Valhalla of full employment. Reams of paper and oceans of red ink have been lavished on this project, and new proposals to combat the scourge of joblessness are trundled forward daily.

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It pays to increase your word power. Iatrogenic, for example, is medico-legal jargon meaning “physician-caused.” It’s a useful term in Washington, where problems caused by people who set out to cure them are 90 per cent of the public business.

Take unemployment. If there is one thing the Federal Government is supposed to be in charge of, it is combatting unemployment. Legislation is on the books which says the policy of the government is to “utilize all its plans, functions, and resources” to reach the Valhalla of full employment. Reams of paper and oceans of red ink have been lavished on this project, and new proposals to combat the scourge of joblessness are trundled forward daily.