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...Lewandoski came up with the long acronym in a salute to the absurdity of final clubs, Lewandoski says...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Final Clubs Out of the Picture | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

Dartboard wants his generation to recognize its responsibility to end this nominative madness. Split up your kids—half get dad’s name, half get mom’s. Or condense the hyphenated names into some sort of acronym (in the second example above, Mary’s last name could be Elbo). Or flip a coin ‘fer crissakes.’ There’s no easy solution other than marrying a family member, but a solution has to be found. Just don’t saddle your young’uns with...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need to counter rumor-mongers like McGregor who made people fear that the bill was just a clever acronym away from being passed...

Author: By Josh A Barro, | Title: The Impending Draft? | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...with the legislature, would make it impossible. Then again if the USA PATRIOT Act (full title: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism”) is any example, maybe we just better hope that HR163 doesn’t get a better acronym...

Author: By Susan E. Mcgregor, | Title: An Army of Indentured Servants | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

Captain Reagan, kept out of action because of poor vision, never saw hostile fire. Indeed, since he was assigned to the First Motion Picture Unit (jocularly given the acronym FUMPOO) at the old Hal Roach studios making propaganda films for the armed forces, he could usually bunk at home. They also serve who narrate documentaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Days in Hollywood: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

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