Word: acronymically
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They will be part of a roughly 60,000-strong NATO contingent, known by the acronym I-FOR (Implementation Force), which will enforce peace for up to one year. As a concession to Moscow's touchiness about being locked out of a region where it has historic ties, Russian troops may participate as well, although their role has yet to be determined. "We are proposing a powerful force," said Perry. "If attacked by anyone, it will bring a large hammer down on them. It will be the biggest, the toughest and the meanest dog in town." In keeping with...
Aside, perhaps, from its somewhat unfortunate acronym--sounding like a heavy black disk to be slapped around--the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC) has the right spirit but an unbelievably flawed approach...
...there was nothing simple, or certain, about Suu Kyi's liberty. It was tempting to imagine a Burmese equivalent of the release of Nelson Mandela: in other words, a signal that the 21 generals who govern the country through the State Law and Order Restoration Council, known by the acronym SLORC, intend to take Burma in a new direction with some important, if undefined, role for the steely lady...
...grown too bloated," Clinton said, addressing delegates from 185 nations in the War Memorial Opera House where President Truman addressed the original framers of the charter 50 years ago. "We must consider major structural changes. The United Nations simply does not need a separate agency with its own acronym, stationery and bureaucracy for every problem." That said, Clinton defended the organization against congressional critics. "Turning our backs on the U.N. is no solution. It would be shortsighted and self-destructive," Clinton said. "We reject the siren song of the new isolationists." Bosnia, the open wound of U.N. failure, received only...
...CISC (an acronym for complex instruction set computer) approach is to have many instructions and few instructions per task. The RISC (an acronym for reduced instruction set computer) approach is to cut down on the number of instructions the microprocessor understands, but to execute the small number of instructions more quickly...