Word: acronymic
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...staff member. Indonesia's powerful intelligence czar, A.M. Hendropriyono, told the press that Jones' reports had tarnished the image of the country and that "many were untrue." Jones, who has written for TIME, says she's not sure what has upset Hendropriyono's intelligence agency, known by its Indonesian acronym BIN. "The accusations against us keep changing," she says. "First it was our reports on Aceh and Papua. The latest [claim] is I'm selling information to foreign countries, which is completely ridiculous...
Michalow joked in an e-mail that the correct acronym for FATAWE is instead fAtAwe (“The A’s are mountains,” he wrote...
...politicians and businessmen. But after two ineffective and inconsistent years in office, Megawati has started to look more like Mini-wati in the eyes of the disillusioned masses, who are voicing their disappointment at the ballot box. Members of her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (known by its Indonesian acronym PDIP), suffered a surprise setback earlier this month in the parliamentary election. PDIP lost its status as the legislature's largest party, garnering about 20% of the vote, down from 33% in 1999, and its candidates were ignominiously outpolled by those from Suharto's old party, Golongan Karya (Golkar...
...this son of German-Americans wrote a training film called "Your Job in Germany," which said that the German people would have to prove they were no longer Hitler's willing patsies. But most of his wartime Geisel spent on a cartoon series called Private SNAFU (from the military acronym Situation Normal All Fouled Up, or word to that effect...
...UCLA—unhappy Caucasians, lost among the Asians,” Thernstrom said, garnering giggles in the audience by facetiously redefining the acronym for the Los Angeles school...