Word: acronymically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already adorned with a suitable acronym, PAYE (Pay As You Earn) is an intriguing scheme for putting a college education in roughly the same class as a house mortgage. Yale and consortiums of medical and business schools are trying to set up small pilot versions of the idea. To convince banks to provide capital, the planners are asking foundations like Ford and Sloan to help guarantee any unforeseen losses. The result has stirred widespread controversy. The major issue is who should pay for the benefits of education-society or the students themselves...
...captain in Army intelligence himself and presently a graduate student at Columbia. Writing in the Washington Monthly (January and July, 1970), Pyle documents the collection, computerization, storage, and analysis of purely domestic intelligence by the U. S. Army Intelligence Command under the official designation of "CONUS," the Army's acronym for Continental U. S. Begun in 1965, and greatly expanded after the summer riots of 1967, the CONUS operation maintains files on millions of Americans who may have been involved, however remotely or passively, in domestic political activity, however lawful. The operation functions under no specific authority from the Executive...
Despite their fund of experience, workers handled the nerve gas with special care. A week before the gas arrived, all loading on the port's three wharves was stopped. When the gas trains were safely at dockside, the second phase-Operation Chase, a venerable Navy acronym for Cut Holes And Sink 'Em-was ready to start...
Constant Hazard. The very word acronym is a neologism, which a Bell Laboratories researcher created in 1943 from the Greek akros (tip) and onyma (name). By 1960, when the Gale Research Company of Detroit published the first edition of what is now called Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary (lumping wordlike acronyms with unpronounceable abbreviations) 12,000 of both were already on the loose. This summer's third edition will list more than 80,000. Nor is English the only language to be acronymized. The Library of Congress publishes a glossary of 23,600 Russian acronyms and abbreviations, ranging from...
...worst hazard is the acronym's tendency to create doubles. As soon as an acronym becomes common, it breeds a litter of identical children. When a man says that he works for AID, is he part of the Agency for International Development or Americans of Italian Descent? Perhaps he is a doctor concerned with Artificial Insemination by Donor, or a lexicographer employed by the Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary, which now lists 18 different AIDs...