Word: acronymed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ducks"--a simplification of the military acronym DUWK--are military vehicles that wee built from 1943 to 1945. For the past 30 years, they have been used in locations across the country as tourist vehicles...
...acronym WAC has already been claimed by a national organization with a much more legitimate claim to the cause of women's rights. The Women's Action Coalition compiles an annual book of statistics on the status of women in our society. Page 59 of the 1993 edition gives the following information on women's earning power, from the U.S. Department of Labor...
...serious competition for the first time in its history. Over the last 12 years, the National Basketball Association has become the fastest growing professional sports league in the world. Under the leadership of its marketing guru, Gary Bettman, the NBA has grown from relative obscurity into a household acronym. The National Football League has also gained popularity, albeit coming from a stronger initial position...
...relationship between Jewish law and being bisexual or gay is an uneasy one, which group cofounder Rachel B. Tiven '96 acknowledged in an interview yesterday. But Tiven said she did not see it as an obstacle for the new discussion group, to be known by the approximate acronym "BAGELS...
...Adnan refers to are his fellow supporters of Hamas. Of all the organizations eager to kill the rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs, the militant Muslim fundamentalist group is probably the greatest threat. An acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement that literally means "zeal," Hamas wants nothing less than the destruction of the Jewish state, followed by the establishment of an Islamic Palestine as a precursor to a greater pan-Arab union. The organization was born in the misery and despair of the teeming refugee camps of the Gaza Strip five years ago, two months after the beginning of the intifadeh...