[Ads-l] Pivot

[Jonathan Lighter]

Nice column, Ben.

As I recall, "pivot" in _Game Change_ also meant  "to change the
subject to avoid answering a question."

JL




On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Yagoda, Ben <byagoda at udel.edu> wrote:
> I wrote a bit about “pivot” here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/05/25/pivoting-to-rebalance/
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> Note the second commenter’s suggestion that the recent popularity of the term may have started in pop business writing of the mid-2000s.
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> Ben
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