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...sailboat, it has often been said, is a hole in the water into which one pours money. Weekend sailors joke that boat is an acronym for Bring Out Another Thousand. A used 18-ft. sloop can cost $10,000, while a new 36-ft. two-masted ketch can run $100,000 and up. And then there's the maintenance and the commitment to sail from a single port. Sailing courses, however, free their students from these costs and limitations. That's because U.S. certifications are accepted in most ports around the country and the world. Graduates can use their certification...
...affectionate acronym) marked the most tonic collaboration-collision of an indie filmmaker and a major studio. 20th Century Fox, which owned the rights to a sequel of the Jacqueline Susann book and hit film "Valley of the Dolls," hired Meyer for the job; and Meyer hired Ebert to write the script. It was just at the time - call it the "Easy Rider" era - when studio bosses briefly convinced themselves they knew nothing about the huge new youth audience and were ready to hand the keys over to dopers, arty types and the occasional tittenfilmer...
...talking, and maybe some short texting on the side. Those vaunted wap handsets turned out to be an unusually complicated and slow way to get a football score. And for most of us, GPRS - the data-friendly wireless system the boffins call 2.5G - remains just another acronym. (The consultancy Analysys reckons only one-third of people with GPRS phones use the new services.) "Even though we've had these mobile data networks up for a couple of years," admits Kent Thexton, chief marketing and data officer at the British network mmO2, "there hasn't been that much...
...members of many groups say they can’t imagine taking Radcliffe out of their official names—either out of inertia, to preserve a link to women’s tradition or to keep a catchy acronym...
...only downside to the Olympics so far has been that the games’ broadcaster, NBC, seems intent on spoiling the fun. Perhaps NBC should change the meaning of its acronym from National Broadcasting Company to Notoriously Bad Coverage, Nothing But Commercials or Never-ending Banal Chatter. Its coverage has been, in a word, awful, from out-of-place and uninformed comments to advertisements in obscene quantities...