Word: shorthanding
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...tore the plastic off their new shirts and tossed them in the washer in the year 1998.” It’s an era of unprecedented wealth, cartoon sitcoms and sex scandals: in a word, the Clinton Era.The dust jacket of “NoVA” (shorthand for Northern Virginia) reads like a recap of an episode of Desperate Housewives, promising to finally “scratch the shiny surface [of suburbia].” This topic may seem trite at worst and overworked at best, but Boice determinedly takes a stab at originality in examining...
...secret that people like shorthand names. Bartholomew almost always becomes Bart, Alexander gets squeezed down to Alex and Margaret - inexplicably - turns into Peggy. Coca-Cola had barely dented the national consciousness before it was compressed to a short and sweet Coke. Ditto the National Biscuit Co., which sounds like a place that manufactures dog chew toys - until you abbreviate it to the scrumptious Nabisco...
...other profession is that its most famous practitioners are almost all women. It's the only industry, outside modeling, where females have higher profiles and are more influential than their male counterparts. So there's another reason there are so many fashion editors in movies: it's an easy shorthand for feminine power...
...Nalgene Tritan Wide-Mouth Everyday Bottle The reasonably priced U.S.-made Nalgene brand bottles have long been popular with sportsmen and women, office workers and soccer moms. But in 2008, the company found itself, along with other bottle makers, in the eye of a storm over BPA, shorthand for Bisphenol A, a commonly used plasticizer that some researchers suggest poses a health risk to humans. The debate goes on; meanwhile Nalgene is promoting a new line of BPA-free bottles. I tried the 32-ounce Tritan Wide-Mouth Everyday bottle, which holds enough water to hydrate you on a coast...
...This was a shorthand way of saying that she has a B.A. in computer science and a specialization in economics,” Kaushik said...