Word: acronymically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around $20, the designer models are more form-fitting and have fancier stitching and other touches. Until last spring, the market was dominated by Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and other names synonymous with class and cash. But Jordache? The name (pronounced Jor-dash) is a loose acronym for three immigrant Israeli brothers, Joseph, Ralph and Avi Nakash, who have taken a faddish product and promoted it overnight into a multimillion-dollar business...
Like many leftist groups, the New Right traces its origin to the turbulent events of May 1968. In reaction to that upheaval of the left, Benoist and a number of similar-minded rightists organized a counterrevolutionary society called GRECE (a French acronym for Research and Study Group on European Civilization). The organization sponsored publications and seminars on such topics as racism, eugenics and Nietzschean ethics...
Under the overall ceiling of 2,250, SALT II places a subceiling of 1,320 on those weapons regarded as the most destabilizing to the strategic balance (see chart following page). These mainly are the multiwarheads known as MIRVs, the acronym for multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles. By enabling several weapons to be fired from a single launcher, MlRVing has led to the rapid expansion of atomic arsenals even though the number of launchers was frozen by SALT I. The 1,320 subceiling covers not only land-based launchers and submarine tubes, but also long-range bombers fitted...
...student governments were intimately involved in planning and executing the conference: University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago (including its officers), Stanford, Brown (including its officers), Columbia, and Princeton. At Cornell, Dartmouth and Yale there is no student government and so there other ties were made: student trustee, members of acronym committees (Cornell), class councils (Dartmouth), and the Yale Political Union...
...overriding question is what Washington will do about the price squeeze. Though he proclaimed the energy crisis the "moral equivalent of war," President Carter has behaved as if it were the acronym MEOW. Now his generals are quarreling publicly over strategy. Observes John Sawhill, who was the federal energy chief under Richard Nixon: "The U.S. could not have been less prepared for this shortage. What bothers me is to see members of Carter's own Cabinet go on TV and make veiled threats about military action in the Middle East even though we refuse to take the simple action...