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...immune system and was often accompanied by a rare cancer, it had been labeled gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, by some people, gay cancer by others. It wasn't, however, restricted to gays. At the meeting, a less exclusive name was suggested: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The acronym had staying power--as has the epidemic. More than 22 million people worldwide have died of AIDS over the past two decades, and today 42 million others live with the virus that causes it. New medicines have made it possible for those who have the disease to lead productive lives...
...replacement system, supposed to be completed around 2005, has gotten so far off schedule that the military could suffer an "imagery gap" as aging satellites in the current system flicker out. The so-called Future Imagery Architecture program, managed by Boeing Co. - and nicknamed "FIASCO," a pun on its acronym, by some insiders - is also running well over budget even as the aerospace giant has had to scale back some promised new capabilities, officials said. That's led some U.S. officials to charge that Boeing had underbid in an aggressive effort to win the contract. "They wanted...
...known, spread like the Hong Kong flu, especially in the developing world. In the Philippines, the black-clad crowds that toppled President Joseph Estrada in 2001 were summoned into being with a now famous single line of coded text passed from phone to phone: "Go 2 EDSA [an acronym for a Manila street]. Wear blck." In Nigeria, the same technology was used to spark anti--Miss World riots that killed hundreds and drove the beauty contest out of Africa...
...people on campus don’t know what RUS is—not only the acronym, which is easily corrected,” he says. “But they don’t know it’s the feminist organization on campus...
...Said shows the girls in skimpy school uniforms kissing and caressing in the rain while singing, "When they stop and stare, it don't worry me/ Cause I'm feeling for her what she's feeling for me." The novelty of their schoolgirl lesbian antics - Tatu is an acronym of the Russian for "This girl loves that girl" - has some British tabloids drooling over the young Muscovites. These are the same papers that have also been running high-profile campaigns to expose pedophiles. Tatu's critics dismiss the act as musical child pornography. (paedo-pop plumbs the depths read...