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During those times the Shooting Club competed against similar clubs at other Ivy League Schools. The club chose never to call itself the "shotgun team," though, because it did not want its acronym to the confused with that of the swimming team, according to a letter written by Nathaniel Nash '07, who was the club's captain...
Beyond the universe of DKNY, DVF and other acronym wear, however, an independent spirit is quietly thriving. Indeed, the future of American dress seems secure on the sketchpads of a few young Manhattan designers, all of whom have gained a following without the benefit of big corporate backers, eponymous SoHo-based retail monuments or advertising campaigns...
...those kiddies who still can't spell can take in the tunes at the Korn concert tonight. The only act on campus competing with their brilliance, which creates song titles such as "A.D.I.D.A.S." (an acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"), is the Satire V crew. Rob Zombie shares the stage. Worcester Centrum Centre, Foster Street, Worcester...
...while many developments will benefit students, for the last two years, the registrar's office has also been updating its record-keeping system. Built in the late 1970s, HERS, an acronym for the Harvard Education Record System, is now being slowly phased out by the more modern HERS2...
...rapidly falling. Henter-Joyce Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla., software company, manufactures a program for blind and visually impaired people that has come down in price by almost half--from $1,500 to $795--since its 1988 introduction, notes president Ted Henter, who is himself blind. Called JAWS, an acronym for Job Access with Speech, the Windows-based program reads back in a synthesized voice whatever is typed into a computer. This voice also reads back e-mail and any information obtained over the Internet. Annual sales have jumped from $100,000 in 1988 to $7 million a decade later...