Word: acronymed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those kiddies who still can't spell can take in the tunes at the Korn concert tonight. The only act on campus competing with their brilliance, which creates song titles such as "A.D.I.D.A.S." (an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"), is the Satire V crew. Rob Zombie shares the stage. Worcester Centrum Centre, Foster Street, Worcester...
...while many developments will benefit students, for the last two years, the registrar's office has also been updating its record-keeping system. Built in the late 1970s, HERS, an acronym for the Harvard Education Record System, is now being slowly phased out by the more modern HERS2...
...rapidly falling. Henter-Joyce Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla., software company, manufactures a program for blind and visually impaired people that has come down in price by almost half--from $1,500 to $795--since its 1988 introduction, notes president Ted Henter, who is himself blind. Called JAWS, an acronym for Job Access with Speech, the Windows-based program reads back in a synthesized voice whatever is typed into a computer. This voice also reads back e-mail and any information obtained over the Internet. Annual sales have jumped from $100,000 in 1988 to $7 million a decade later...
...same, the year just getting under way will bring 12 months of millennial thinking, hoping and, in many circles, worrying. Especially worrying--about The End of the World as We Know It (or TEOTWAWKI, the acronym in use on some Internet gloomsites). Apocalyptic fantasies, which have always been freely available in an atomic-age Christian culture, are about to reach another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood...
...group, AHANA, an acronym for Asian, Hispanic, African-American and Native American, was featured in last week's The Heights, a Boston College student weekly...