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...suppressing discussion at the United Nations for this bistant breach of international law, but also continue its military aid to Indonesia. At the time, the stated purpose of the Indonesian invasion of this Portuguese colony was to "stabilize" it and prevent the allegedly leftist liberation front FRETILIN (a Portuguese acronym) from taking over power after the Portuguese had started the decolonization process in 1974. This "stabilization" process has since involved 100,000 to 200,000 civilian deaths caused by the actual fighting and even more by the large famines which came as a result of indiscriminate bombings of the countryside...
...public, doctors call them hypochondriacs, malingerers and hysterics. In private, physicians have been known to describe some of them as turkeys, hospital hobos and GOMERs (an acronym for Get Out of My Emergency Room). By whatever name, they are doctors' least-loved patients, individuals who use imaginary or self-inflicted physical illnesses to gain attention and manipulate others. The hostility displayed by physicians to these patients, known clinically as somatizers, is usually attributed to irritation and frustration. Now Psychiatrist Charles Ford of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine offers a more startling explanation for the rancor: physicians and somatizers...
Because the club was "inspired by ROTC cadets at Harvard," Deardorff said, to get approval he would be willing to compromise on the name of the organization, as long as it contains the acronym 'ROTC...
...electromagnetic force. But bosons are more elusive than photons. Although nearly 100 times as heavy as protons, they could not be forged in any existing accelerator. While physicists in the U.S. and elsewhere began designing new machines, Rubbia, who divides his time between Harvard and CERN, the French acronym for the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, decided that there must be an easier, cheaper way. He persuaded CERN to let him modify its major accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron, to achieve higher energies. Instead of sending nuclear bullets, protons, barreling into a fixed target, the four-mile circular...
Regardless of undercoating or other protective measures taken by their owners, some Fiat cars rusted rapidly on U.S. roads in the 1970s. That problem and others led wags to proclaim Fiat an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. Partly as a result, sales dropped from a high of 100,511 cars in 1975 to last year's 14,113. Last week Fiat announced that it was pulling out of the American market...