Word: acronymically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remember the good old days when abbreviations did not have to spell out some silly word? Think N.A.A.C.P. or AT&T or TWA. Now, it seems, every new organization or product title is contorted to spell out some annoying acronym. Here are a few recent examples...
...keep his operation lean yet opportunistic, he outsources his consultants--Citicorp for investment banking, Arthur Andersen for company advice, Saatchi & Saatchi for p.r. and Hogan & Hartson, a Washington law firm, for legal matters. (Alwaleed is the first to notice that the initials of these firms form the acronym CASH...
...process of melding a number of currencies into one is called European Monetary Union, which is customarily expressed by the acronym EMU. The English, I think, would be reluctant to use the term even if they were not aware that an EMU is a large edible bird, native to Australia...
...College, Oxford, reconstructing one's past involves a "continuous remixing of memory and forgetting." For much of 1980, while working on a doctorate in history, Garton Ash lived in East Berlin. Inevitably, he became an object of interest to East Germany's omnipresent secret police, known by the acronym Stasi. In The File (Random House; 262 pages; $23), Garton Ash, now 42, tries to reconstruct that year behind Berlin's Wall by comparing his private notes from the period with what he found in Stasi's newly opened records. Going further, he located and interviewed some of the informers...
...national magazine like this one could be part of a disinformation campaign to distract letter-to-the-editor-writing UFOlogists from more fruitful pursuits. For all you know, this author may be a member of an ultra-top-secret National Security Council committee with a terribly spooky acronym...