The rise of 'occupy' as a social concept

The New York Times Opinion Page opines that the word 'occupy' "is the odds-on favorite to be chosen as the American Dialect Society’s Word of the Year.cIt has already succeeded in shifting the terms of the debate, taking phrases like “debt-ceiling” and “budget crisis” out of the limelight and putting terms like “inequality” and “greed” squarely in the center. This discursive shift has made it more difficult for Washington to continue to promote the spurious reasons for the financial meltdown and the unequal outcomes it has exposed and further produced."