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...Egypt, which looks something like a cross between a lobster and a skyscraper, stands 20 stories high and weighs 7,000 tons. Tearing up earth at a rate of 200 tons per bite, the Hanna Coal Co.'s Gem (actually an acronym for Giant Earth Mover) has stripped the top 80 ft. of soil off the area around Hendrysburg, Ohio, so that other machines can gouge out the underlying coal. Now the Gem wants to move across Interstate Highway 70 and chew its way toward Barnesville (pop. 4,300), ten miles to the south...
...went to a Philadelphia Jewish group that gave a $50-a-plate dinner for then Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo, the hard-line law-and-order man who is now the city's mayor. At Washington University in St. Louis, a periodical appeared under a catchy acronym, ACIID, for a pretentious name: a critical insight into Israel's dilemmas. But ACIID has tried to live up to its name. It has run an article by an Arab attacking Israeli expansionism, and for a while had two Arabs on its editorial board...
Such crime-prevention tips are being offered to Southern California bankers by expert consultants-a group of ex-convicts who used to specialize in robbery, forgery and credit-card theft. They now are part of Project JOVE (an acronym for Job placement. On the job training, Vocational counseling, Education), which is a San Diego operation to help former prisoners find jobs and adjust to life outside...
...Carlson is campaigning against "NETMA"-his acronym for the frequent executive complaint that "nobody ever tells me anything." By the end of the year, he will complete a reorganization of United into three operating centers, each with its own profit-and-loss statement. He hopes that this first decentralization in airline history will bring headquarters executives into closer and quicker touch with what is happening in the field. He cites a trip that he made to Florida, during which he found that United's ticketing and check-in facilities were grossly inadequate, and ordered them to be improved. "That...
...MBFR. Unlike the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, or SALT, this makes for an absolutely unpronounceable acronym. Adding letters is no improvement: MUBAFORE? Nonsense. Obviously, the thing will have to be renamed. Dropping "Mutual" could yield BALFORE, which is not ideal but has a certain statesmanlike ring. Rearranging the words to make it "Balanced and Mutual," etc., could lead to BAM, for short. One could even start talking about a proposed Treaty on Troop Reductions, or TROT, for the headline writers...