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...counties have none at all, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Another indicator: this month the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, the abortion-rights movement's leading organization, officially changed its name for the fourth time, to NARAL Pro-Choice America, dropping the word abortion and adopting the acronym instead...
...college in the nation. But U.N.H. is one of a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities that are hardening the line against smokers. The trend started in the late '80s with mild prohibitions on smoking in academic buildings and has recently gained a sharper edge. Under the subtle acronym COUGH (Campuses Organized and United for Good Health), student antismoking advocates at eight California state colleges have banded together to push for tougher smoking rules throughout the state system. Officials at the University of Washington have not only outlawed the sale and advertising of tobacco products but also divested...
Much of the credit for the aging spy's resuscitation goes to producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. The daughter and stepson of franchise co-founder Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, the two run EON--an acronym for "Everything or Nothing"--the company based in London that has produced all the official Bond films. (Never Say Never Again, in which Connery played 007 for the first time in a dozen years, is considered a rogue agent.) When Cubby's health began to fail in the 1990s, the pair stepped up to take his place. Wilson had been co-producing since...
Subin and Ocean had changed the group’s name earlier this semester, from Beyond Our Normal Differences to Building on Diversity, retaining the same acronym...
Wilson used the acronym HIPPO—Habitat Destruction, Innocent Species’ Death, Pollution, Population and Overharvesting—to describe the way humans harm the environment...