Word: acronymic
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...referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need to counter rumor-mongers like McGregor who made people fear that the bill was just a clever acronym away from being passed...
...with the legislature, would make it impossible. Then again if the USA PATRIOT Act (full title: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”) is any example, maybe we just better hope that HR163 doesn’t get a better acronym...
...there has been no discernible difference in the lives?and deaths?of ordinary Acehnese. The army has yet to announce the withdrawal of any of the approximately 50,000 soldiers and police sent in to crush the separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (also known by its Indonesian acronym G.A.M.). Bloody clashes are an almost daily occurrence, with security forces claiming to have killed 24 rebels in a single week in early June. Also unchanged is the steady stream of reports of mysterious civilian killings like Ishak's. Human-rights workers blame both sides for such deaths, although...
Captain Reagan, kept out of action because of poor vision, never saw hostile fire. Indeed, since he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit (jocularly given the acronym FUMPOO) at the old Hal Roach studios making propaganda films for the armed forces, he could usually bunk at home. They also serve who narrate documentaries...
...acronym refers to Harvard’s most staunchly Puritan president, Increase Mather—who presided over Harvard from 1685 to 1701—after whom Mather House is named. The letter might have been used as an important clue regarding the true origins of the Spring 2004 Interhouse wars...