Word: acronymic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ascendant service company was founded in our very own Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1949 as a cleaning company targeting the local universities and colleges. According to their website, the name UNICCO was originally intended as an acronym for UNIversity Cleaning Company. The website encourages their potential customers to move to outsourcing as a way to focus on “core business” and achieve maximum cost-effectiveness...
...ramsi. An intervention force may seem an unlikely thing to swoon over, but the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands has pop-star appeal across the 992-island archipelago. The freshly minted brand has gained the status of savior and sorcerer with a long-suffering people, who utter the acronym in respectful whispers or with toothy smiles. From the streets of the ragtag capital, Honiara, to remote villages that the modern world has barely touched, a white stranger is instinctively welcomed as a friend rather than a carpetbagger because of ramsi's good works. High on a ridge above Honiara...
...dangerous. As a habit, Munir kept things to himself, Rachland says, especially when the matter was dangerous. Even in death, Munir hasn't escaped his enemies. On Nov. 20, someone mailed his wife a decapitated chicken along with a note reading: "Be careful!!!!! Do not connect the TNI [an acronym for the Indonesian armed forces] to the death of Munir. Do you want to end up like this?" Contacted by TIME, a spokesman for the armed forces said that they would welcome an early conclusion to the investigation as the public would then know that they had nothing...
...Lewandoski came up with the long acronym in a salute to the absurdity of final clubs, Lewandoski says...
Dartboard wants his generation to recognize its responsibility to end this nominative madness. Split up your kids—half get dad’s name, half get mom’s. Or condense the hyphenated names into some sort of acronym (in the second example above, Mary’s last name could be Elbo). Or flip a coin ‘fer crissakes.’ There’s no easy solution other than marrying a family member, but a solution has to be found. Just don’t saddle your young’uns with...