Jargon blurs surgery consent form: study

Brisbane Times

For just over 15 per cent of the forms, a significant part of the procedure was described using an acronym without further explanation. ...



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Google Bolding Acronyms In Search Results

Search Engine Roundtable

Ever notice when you do a search at Google for nfl or seo or ppc or other popular acronyms you see that Google will bold the longer version of the acronym ? ...

Web Work 101: Search Engine Optimization Basics WebWorkerDaily



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Systematic Size-up Reports for Structure Fires

FireEngineering.com

Other fireground elements to be communicated when present comprise the second part of the acronym , HAS. "Engine-1 is on the scene of a one-story, ...

S(H)IBOLETH: MEND this Language

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The newscaster, in observance of a phonological transformation rule that allows one to realise an acronym as a word if it structurally approaches or ...



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Toyota Makes It Official: NUMMI Is Shutting Down

Barron's Blogs

Formerly a joint venture with General Motors - NUMMI is an acronym for New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. - the plant is the single largest private ...



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Global opportunities conference held Oct. 9 at Appalachian

Appalachian State University

The acronym AIESEC originated from a French phrase that loosely translated to International Association of Students in Economics and Commerce, ...

DOD Invites Public to Interactive Web Portal: A Soldier's Take

Associated Content

This new website does a great job of limiting acronyms and the only acronym on the front page that I found was DOD. The only time that I felt bombarded by ...



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Giant leap for a treadmill

msnbc.com

For starters, consider the origins of the acronym : Earlier this year, NASA set up a naming contest for one of the space station's last components, ...

Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week? DCist.com

FACTBOX: Shuttle Discovery ferries experiments and supplies Reuters

Discovery to-do list: build COLBERT, lug huge coolant tank Christian Science Monitor

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Lowes' Greenwashed, Certified Cabinets

Examiner.com

I moseyed on over to the Internet to search the acronym on the logo, KCMA. This led me to its website, www.greencabinetsource.org. ...

Alameda organization working to recall trustees says it's not a ...

San Jose Mercury News

The Lesson 9 plan includes a vocabulary list, which, at grade four, includes the words gay, lesbian and the acronym "LGBT." Kevin Wood told the attendees ...



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Ometz demands AG probe Menora backdating scandal

Ha'aretz

Ometz, a Hebrew acronym for "Citizens for proper administration and social and legal justice", yesterday wrote to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz following ...

Tide CB/RS Javier Arenas an award finalist & UA sports update

Examiner.com

An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use ...



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YACHT: See Mystery Lights

guardian.co.uk

In calling themselves "a band, belief system and business" and going by an acronym (Young Americans Challenging High Technology), you'd be forgiven for ...

The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam

guardian.co.uk

Despite his impeccable cleanliness, Feathers is known by friends and enemies alike as Filth, the name deriving from the old acronym "Failed In London, ...



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On Language

New York Times

In Los Angeles, the Union Oil Company joined with the city to begin the South Coast Recycled Auto Project, its catchier acronym being Scrap; ...

Research and Markets: Glossary & Acronyms for Clinical Research ...

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)

This easy to use "back-pocket" reference guide helps you to navigate more than 900 key terms and over 500 acronyms that are commonly used in clinical ...

NDP proposal to change party name could prove embarrassing in Quebec

The Canadian Press

"It's just going to create some negative press . . . in this case, the acronym is essentially the name, so there's lots of things to consider. ...

Is changing the NDP brand good politics? Canada.com

Time runs out on NDP name-change vote CTV.ca

Can a new name revive the NDP? CBC.ca

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R2P latest acronym for neo-colonial interventions

Lankaweb

Delivering the Eighth Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, ...



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Starr Tincup releases article entitled "SEO... Oh Great Another ...

PR-USA.net (press release)

Oh Great Another Acronym " is available to the public at (http://crunk.starrtincup.com/SEOaudit). Search engine optimization (SEO) is a widely discussed ...

ZD Wines celebrates 40th anniversary

St. Helena Star

ZD is an acronym comprising the first letters of the two founders' surnames. It is also an acronym for Zero Defects, which was abundantly posted to ...