Word: acronymically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard's exchange of "poor" for "young" makes the acronym work out nicely, but it also incorporates a whole class of professionals of any age who don't make as much money as the typical Yuppie. This group primarily holds jobs in professions President Reagan has targeted for severe cutbacks--community organizers, social service workers, public employees in fields like housing and education, and many health care professionals. In addition, almost anyone who is involved in an "alternative" business like a food cooperative, a bicycle repair collective. Many of the people in these professions are young because it's difficult...
...acronym," Stauff continues, explaining that the founders of the company. Harvey and Maynard Schade, combined parts of their first names to come up with the company's name...
...also moved him to act. In 1983 Severn established LASTPAC (an acronym standing for Let the American System Triumph) to make Iowa voters aware of the moneyed influences entering state campaigns and to support national anti-PAC legislation. "It is the PAC to end all PACs," says Severn...
...given in your story on arms policy [WORLD, June 25]. You say, "Pipes and Allen wanted to call the new talks SART." In fact, this was the term that first cropped up in the Administration after President Reagan decided to press for reductions of nuclear weapons. I thought this acronym unattractive and at a meeting of the National Security Council staff held early in the Administration suggested START as an alternative. This suggestion was accepted...
From the outset of the new Administration, there was uncertainty and passionate disagreement over what, if any, agreement it should seek for the future. The idea of a new acronym that substituted an R for reduction in place of the L for limitation in SALT came from Richard Pipes, a Harvard history professor and leading hawk who had joined the NSC staff. Pipes and Allen wanted to call the new talks SART. That did not catch on. White House Chief of Staff James Baker passed a note to Allen during a meeting: "How about 'Faster Arms Reduction Talks...