Word: acronymically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What about the CUE? Actually, let me spell that acronym out--the Committee on Undergraduate Education. That's right--undergraduate education, an issue that is of concern to us all. Probably of more concern than most issues debated by student-faculty committees...
...initials are plastered on bumper stickers and school bulletin boards from California to the Carolinas: DARE. The acronym stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, a $750 million-a-year drug-prevention program that is the most popular in the nation. But is it the most successful...
Whenever ROTC is discussed, it seems to boil down to these four basic questions. It is an acronym that has been the subject of debate on this campus for years, and this debate greeted me upon my arrival in September...
...acronym, popularized in the early 1960s by sociologist E. Digby Baltzell, explains who Wasps are and -- more important -- were. White and Protestant are self-explanatory. Anglo-Saxon, a clumsy term, means English, plus English speakers from Northern Ireland and the Scottish lowlands. Wasps formed the vast majority of the early American population: 200 years ago, nearly all Americans were Protestant, and almost two-thirds were of "Anglo- Saxon" stock. First to come, first to serve: Wasps gave early America its first laws, religions and rhetoric, as well as a characteristic mental and personal style...
...issues. What U.S. citizen remembers and can fully justify Operation "Just" Cause? Can anyone--except perhaps a federal agent--truly say that they know what happened in Nicaragua? The validity of Galbraith's statement is truly frightening. In six months, or maybe even less, NAFTA will just be another acronym in U.S. foreign policy history. But the truth is that if NAFTA does not get approved when voted in the U.S. Congress this week, not only Mexico, but much of Latin America, will remember the rejection of this treaty for several generations to come...