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    This document discusses words that should be used carefully and precisely in writing to maintain their intended meanings. It provides examples of words like "sector", "spectrum", and "theme" that are sometimes used too broadly in a way that dilutes their original meanings. For words like these, the document recommends replacing them with more precise terms like "people", "range", or simply removing unnecessary words from a sentence to improve clarity.

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    This document discusses words that should be used carefully and precisely in writing to maintain their intended meanings. It provides examples of words like "sector", "spectrum", and "theme" that are sometimes used too broadly in a way that dilutes their original meanings. For words like these, the document recommends replacing them with more precise terms like "people", "range", or simply removing unnecessary words from a sentence to improve clarity.

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    This document discusses words that should be used carefully and precisely in writing to maintain their intended meanings. It provides examples of words like "sector", "spectrum", and "theme" that are sometimes used too broadly in a way that dilutes their original meanings. For words like these, the document recommends replacing them with more precise terms like "people", "range", or simply removing unnecessary words from a sentence to improve clarity.

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    Sector: The Words To Be Used

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    This document discusses words that should be used carefully and precisely in writing to maintain their intended meanings. It provides examples of words like "sector", "spectrum", and "theme" that are sometimes used too broadly in a way that dilutes their original meanings. For words like these, the document recommends replacing them with more precise terms like "people", "range", or simply removing unnecessary words from a sentence to improve clarity.

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    The Words to be Used

    up late in the m orning is his ideal scenario. Thus the original connotation
    is dissipated.
    sector
    Sector meaning a part or subdivision has a geometrical basis. It has been
    m uch used in the expressions public sector and private sector, but it
    is best not applied to groups o f hum an beings. There is nothing to be
    gained from saying (rather ungrammatically) There is a sector o f the
    police force w ho are racist instead o f Some policem en are racist. The
    w ord is equally unhappily used in the following:
    This scheme represents a new era in reproductive medicine and helps certain
    sectors who before couldnt get treatment.
    W hy not: . . . and helps certain people w ho before couldnt get
    treatm ent?
    spectrum
    In the case o f words such as concept we have seen how a technical term
    may be taken over, quite usefully, for m ore general use, and then may
    suffer a gradual loss o f definable meaning. This has begun to happen
    w ith the w ord spectrum . Strictly it means the band o f colours into w hich
    a prism resolves a beam of light. The image is useful, but we are beginning
    to hear the w ord applied m ore and m ore widely w hen people w ant to
    sum up a range o f attitudes. Speaking for social workers, someone says
    Yet we deal w ith a spectrum o f em otional issues in the course o f our
    w ork, where spectrum w ould be better replaced by range or variety.
    theme
    The w ord them e is not perhaps a vivid w ord, but it is rich in association
    w ith accounts o f symphonic movements in music and metaphorical
    sequences in poetry.
    But humiliation was the theme of Yeltsins position in those days.
    If we w ant to say that Yeltsin was being humiliated, do we need to drag
    in the w ord them e at all?
    unnecessary
    Here again is a forceful w ord w hich ought not to be employed so as to
    weaken its connotation.

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