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...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...
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...