Diverse used to mean varied. It is more specific, now. A group of people with different skin tones, different accents, different gender(s), different degrees, but share group think.
I'm old enough to remember when pronouns were pretty simple. For males, it was he/him. For females, it was she/her. For a group, it was they/them. Basically, that covered it. Now . . . it seems there are new ones every whipstitch and it is politically incorrect to not use an individual's preferred pronoun. I can't keep track!
Infrastructure used to mean: roads, bridges, and ports. Now it means every political power grab from soup to nuts. Infrastructure is now the underpinning of control of the American society from daycare for children to the vehicles and roads that get them there.
When there is a calamitous outcome, government officials have a catchphrase, and usually pass the buck. Bad intelligence is the excuse made by the executive branch in blaming another agency or bureaucracy for giving misinformation. For those of us who are not politicians, bad intelligence means a stupid decision!
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