Word: acronymic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else could it respond to a nation whose chief executive once toasted Mexico's President with a reference to Montezuma's revenge? A country whose leader once billed his energy program as the "moral equivalent of war"--only to realize later that his phrase formed the acronym "meow"? Jimmy Carter could very easily wind up alongside the Franklin Pierces, Millard Fill mores and Herbert Hoovers who dwell uncelebrated in the sewers of history...
While Disney's successors have clung to the founder's ugly acronym (Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), they have departed from his Utopian concept of a real-life community evolving in harmony with an ever changing and beneficent technology. What they have wrought is not the town but the adult toy of the future. Epcot is a mind-pummeling assault of electronic ingenuity, historical fact, fancy, showmanship, faith, hope...
...hero of the Canadian episode was a Soviet satellite named, in Moscow's prosaic nomenclature, Cosmos 1,383. Launched last June, it was the first spacecraft in the Soviet COSPAS (an acronym for cooperation in space) series. Under discussion since 1975, when Soviet-American cooperation in space was at its apogee with the Apollo-Soyuz linkup, the SARSAT idea is virtually the last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language...
...only be solved by applying one of the two rules, which themselves are in conflict. He has tapes and booklets and sample answer grids and self-addressed, stamped envelopes in case you want to take the MCATs or GMATs or TOEFLs or MSKPs or National Podiatry Boards (no acronym) when you finish with the LSATs. He has all this for you. You have...
...galling, especially to those who, regarding themselves as tough-minded and not fainthearted, will see these books as further evidence that war is too devilishly attractive to be left to the generals. Hackett's lip-smacking language ("seek and destroy armor, shortened into the not infelicitous little acronym SADARM") can make the military mind seem demented. But civilian harrumphing is no more useful than the military kind, and reading Hackett's prickly books goads the reader to ask: How can the human race evolve beyond the savagery of tribalistic nationalism? -By John Skow...