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...offered a reward to the first employee who is arrested for violating the one-year-old law. Indeed, the great mass of smokers might be well advised to or ganize in defense of their own "civil rights." They might call their league Smokers United to Avoid Vigilante Excesses - the acronym, of course, being SUAVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SMOKING: FIGHTING FIRE WITH IRE | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...laser (the word is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) has been around since 1960, when scientists first succeeded in producing the powerful beams of single-frequency light waves. These beams could be delivered to distant points with much less diffusion and loss of intensity than ordinary beams, which consist of the helter-skelter waves of white light. In recent years, using light generated by gases or chemical reactions, researchers have greatly increased both the power and range of lasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Laser Whammy | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...acronym loosely coined by Inventor Jack Cover from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Stun Gun | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Press Complaints. For the gift opening on Christmas morning, Ford wore a new sweater that included in its Scandinavian design the acronym WIN. Sprawling comfortably in the living room beneath a decorated tree that stretched to the ceiling, Ford unwrapped a pair of brass book ends from his wife, and a sweater, a heavy wool shirt, a basket of cheeses, and sausages from his children. The President gave Betty a yellow quilted bathrobe. As the family opened their presents, Ford could see the ski slopes through a picture window, and later he got in a run or two before turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE: At Play in the Dallas Alps | 1/6/1975 | See Source »

...Fatah, the largest, has an estimated membership of 6,700, of whom some 2,000 are active fighters. Al Fatah?an acronym derived from the transposed initials for Palestine Liberation Movement in Arabic?was founded in 1956 by a group of young Palestinians in Gaza. Among the students was Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar), who has led the organization since 1968. Al Fatah has a broad base of middle-class support and no definable ideology other than the liberation of Palestine. Since its first raid into Israel on New Year's Eve 1965, Fatah has carried out mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Palestinians Become a Power | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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