Word: acronymic
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...though the Historically Unprecedented Hijacking of the Constitution to Single Out a Group of American Citizens and Explicitly Deny Them Certain Rights Amendment might be more apt. (Perhaps the perennially forthright Attorney General John Ashcroft initially favored the latter title, but was told by the Justice Department that the acronym would be too unwieldy...
...presidential candidates and politics on the national stage. So I dutifully wrote to Harvard Students for Dean to test the waters. As luck would have it, this columnist got Dean’s first name wrong in her email, and subsequently got no responses from HSD, (or whatever their acronym is). But then I realized: I’m not interested in writing about Dean. How he really likes to talk tough about Bush. How he’s running a more grassroots campaign. How he ran a tight ship in Vermont. It’s all great. It?...
...brightest students who did not necessarily have the benefit of being a legacy or attending a prep school. It was developed by Princeton psychologist Carl Brigham, who based many of the questions on an intelligence test had developed for the U.S. army. The test’s now infamous acronym stood for Student Aptitude Test, and was intended to measure exactly that. Since the SAT’s inception, however, the College Board has “tried to move away from the word aptitude,” according to Kristin Carnaham, associate director of Public Affairs for the College...
...weeks earlier in the semester, Francisco Aguilar ’05, president of the Social Enterprise Club, and Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, president of the new Student Entrepreneurship Council, battled to enter the SEC acronym for their respective clubs in Harvard’s official registry of student groups. “SEC is more than just letters—it’s letters that stand for something,” says Aguilar...
These two groups, with similar missions and even more similar names, have since resolved their differences, with Greenspan deferring to history and agreeing to let the older Social Enterprise Council keep the acronym. FM invited the presidents of both clubs to try to bury the hatchet over a friendly game of Boggle (FM’s official board game...