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| BA cabin crew to strike this month Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:12 EST Union members representing British Airways cabin crews announced Friday they will hold two separate strikes this month in a dispute over working conditions. |
| Thousands protest in Greek capital Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:15 EST Thousands of people march through Athens as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest against austerity measures by the government. |
| Outcry over China migrant curbs Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:29:24 EST It's break time at the Seven Colors Elementary School, a privately-run school just an hour's drive from central Beijing. Scores of warmly dressed Chinese pupils are enjoying sunshine. Some play table tennis or skip rope. Others run around the flag pole, seemingly oblivious to the problem their parents face. |
| China sets guidelines on bank bonuses Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:40:14 EST China's banking regulator has issued guidelines linking bonus pay of bank executives and employees to performance, according to state media. |
| Bahrain seeks to preserve ancient pearling traditions Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:56:34 EST Once upon a time, harvesting pearls was a way of life for the people of Bahrain, a glistening archipelago of 33 islands off the coast of Saudi Arabia. |
| Ex-Toyota lawyer: Company hid info Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:11:33 EST When former in-house defense attorney Dimitrios Biller resigned from his top post at Toyota, he walked out with something potentially more valuable than his nearly $4 million severance package. |
| Man Utd bidders appoint top bank Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:41 EST The group poised to launch a takeover bid for English Premier League side Manchester United has signaled its intent by appointing a major international bank to act as its financial adviser. |
| Daihatsu recalls 274,000 vehicles Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:51:03 EST Daihatsu Motor Company announced Thursday that it was recalling more than 274,000 vehicles for problems with their suspension systems. |
| Trump's golf course plan on tee Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:40:32 EST Despite the financial downturn affecting property prices and construction projects around the world, bullish American billionaire Donald Trump remains committed to building what he has dubbed the "world's greatest golf course" in Scotland after unveiling designs for the new complex. |
| Slim edges Gates as world's richest Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:43:57 EST Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not first. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 13, 2010 is:
acronym • \AK-ruh-nim\ • noun
: a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters
Example sentence:
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.
Did you know?
"Acronym" was created by combining "acr-" ("beginning") with "-onym," ("name" or "word"). You may recognize "-onym" in other familiar English words such as "pseudonym" and "synonym." English speakers borrowed "-onym" directly from the Greek (it derives from "onyma," the Greek word for "name"). "Acr-" is also from Greek, but it made a side trip through Middle French on its way to English. When "acronym" first entered English, some usage commentators decreed that it should refer to combinations of initial letters that were pronounced as if they were whole words (such as "radar" or "scuba"), differentiated from an "initialism," which is spoken by pronouncing the component letters (as "FBI" and "CEO"). These days, however, that distinction is largely lost, and "acronym" is a common label for both types of abbreviation.