Word: acronymic
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...military may have officially signed off on President Bush's new Iraq plan, but there is still a healthy dose of skepticism about the so-called surge strategy. Many officers have taken to using the acronym "JEL" to characterize the number of troops dedicated to the new effort. It stands for ?Just Enough to Lose." "Look, is this a national effort, or more of the same mid-level one?" asked a senior officer who has served in Iraq. "What I heard last night is more of the same. We either needed to go big - and that means 100,000 soldiers...
...unfortunate acronym suggests, the CAN-SPAM Act did not so much prohibit spamming as show companies how to do it. That's because Congress bungled an attempt to balance two constitutional interests: a privacy right (freedom from unwanted e-mails) and a free-speech right (freedom to send advertising--a type of speech--by e-mail). Instead of guarding privacy by allowing commercial e-mail only when people asked for it, Congress favored the speech rights of e-mailers: consumers bear the burden of telling spammers to stop. Congress also said e-mail couldn't be "materially" misleading about...
...Demon Magazine has previously hosted a comedy show during stand up weekend, and earlier this year, Ingber helped organize a Comedy Night in Winthrop House, but this was the first appearance of Ingber and Greenbaum’s new group: the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society (HSUCS). Say the acronym out loud and you’ll get a sense of the kind of wonderfully low-brow humor we can expect in their future outings. Hopefully this promising debut paved the way for continued success...
...Corcoran ’07, current president of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (IOP). Although Colbert made a few in-character jokes at the beginning of the interview—emphasizing that the Student Advisory Committee’s acronym makes the sound “sack” while gesturing towards his groin, for example—he quickly distanced himself from his creation. “My character is more about how he feels about the news than whether or not he’s saying anything that?...
Although Colbert made a few in-character jokes at the beginning of the interview—emphasizing that the Student Advisory Committee’s acronym makes the sound “sack” while gesturing towards his groin, for example—he quickly distanced himself from his creation...