Word: acronymic
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Despite all these odds, Akris (an acronym from the name of the above-mentioned grandmother, Alice Kriemler-Schoch), based in the Swiss town of St. Gallen, has elegant women across North America praising its elusive balance of style, fit and quality. Women tend to discover Akris for themselves. Nicole Kidman spotted a coat in a store window on a Sunday evening and ordered it the following morning. Other fans include Susan Sarandon and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...Acronym for the fast-food bakery Au Bon Pain, where croissants, chess enthusiasts, Harvardians, and tourists abound just beyond the Yard’s wrought-iron gates...
...governor of oil-rich Zulia still does not have the whole opposition behind him. The opposition party which led Venezuela's transition to democracy almost 50 years ago, Democratic Action (known by the Spanish acronym AD), has ironically called on voters to abstain in the elections. And the late candidacy launched by comedian Benjamin Rausseo has also thrown a surprise challenger into the ring. Rausseo's rise from humble beginnings to one of the country's most beloved entertainers could resonate with low-income Venezuelans, even though many people are still trying to figure out if the off-the-wall...
Long before Mel Gibson was pulled over by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in Malibu for drunk driving, the entertainment news website TMZ.com - whose name is an acronym for the "thirty-mile zone" around Hollywood - had shown a knack for giving the world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand...
...peacekeepers deployed in south Lebanon, known by the acronym UNIFIL, dispatch convoys of trucks and armored personnel carriers carrying essential humanitarian supplies to isolated villages. Yet although Israel said it was ceasing air operations for a 48-hour period, it did not call a halt to fighting on the ground or to air support expressly to support those ground troops. A white Mercedes races down the road, the driver waving his hand out of the window, motioning this reporter to stop. "The Israelis are shelling the road between Aitta Shaab and Rmeish," he says breathlessly, referring to two villages...