Word: acronymically
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...loss of Radcliffe in the HR combination opens up whole new doors of fun acronyms. HRSAS (the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students) could become a sassy-sounding SASH (Society of Arab Students at Harvard). And sadly, musical organizations seem to be particularly vulnerable to less flattering connotations in this new Radcliffe-less world. The elegantly constructed HARMONY acronym (Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth) will be rechristened to a less charitable Harvard MONY. And alas! Our prestigious philharmonic, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HO), will be condensed...
...liberators, but to Ho they were no better than the French. Slipping across the Chinese frontier into Vietnam--his first return home in three decades--he urged his disciples to fight both the Japanese and the French. There, in a remote camp, he founded the Viet Minh, an acronym for the Vietnam Independence League, from which he derived his nom de guerre, Ho Chi Minh--roughly "Bringer of Light...
Nike says it has a staff of 1,000 labor-practices managers enforcing a program the company calls shape--an acronym for Safety, Health, Attitude of Management, People, Environment. "We are the only company that has people dedicated exclusively to labor-practice enforcement," says Brad Figel, Nike's Washington lobbyist. Outside auditors as well as nongovernmental organizations have also had a look...
...become a plague is what people are calling it. During the influenza epidemic of 1917, people abridged the disease's funny Latinate name to make it "the flu." The middle ages renamed the bubonic plague symptoms "posy," and our era has made us all familiar with the rather scientific acronym "AIDS." At Harvard today, a similar name adjustment has occurred. Suddenly, instead of "repetitive strain injury" or "repetitive stress injury" or "tendonitis" or any other variations on the theme, even unafflicted Harvard students have started to call our increasingly common problem by the abbreviation "RSI." RSI has moved from...
...whole issue of children and the Internet in something of a legal vacuum. Since policymakers abhor vacuums even more than Nature does, the capital found itself host last week of a conference graced with the title of "Internet/Online Summit: Focus on Children." Was there no budget for a clever acronym...