proactive

Subject: proactive
From: Phil Brittenham <pbritten -at- TECHREPS -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:25:45 -0600

Although the "proactive" fad has largely passed in government writing around
here, at the height of its popularity, I got sufficiently annoyed with the
word that I often changed "proactive" to "dumb,'" which my authors all
agreed was what they really meant anyway. Try it.

pb

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