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| Clinton: Israeli announcement on settlements 'insulting' Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:57:20 EST Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that Israel's announcement of new settlement construction in disputed territory in East Jerusalem was "insulting" to the United States. |
| PM's group leads in early Iraq results Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:11:16 EST Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's alliance led partial preliminary election results Saturday in Baghdad, where the most parliamentary seats are up for grabs, according to the electoral commission. |
| Kissinger admitted to S. Korean hospital Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:51:55 EST Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul on Saturday for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported. |
| Iran criticized for religious persecution Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:10:01 EST The State Department condemned Iran's persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities' detention of Baha'is and Christians in recent months. |
| Taliban claims deadly attack in Pakistan Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:15:08 EST Six people were killed and 16 others injured in a suicide attack in northwest Pakistan, authorities said Saturday. |
| Terror suspect worked at U.S. nuclear plant Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:04:56 EST The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is working with the FBI to determine whether a New Jersey man suspected of being an al Qaeda member had access to any sensitive areas of the nuclear plants where he once worked, a commission spokeswoman said Friday. |
| Beheaded Vikings found at Olympic site Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:57:57 EST They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave. |
| Pope 'distraught' over German sex abuse scandal Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:27:36 EST Pope Benedict XVI is distraught by news of a scandal involving allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Germany, Germany's highest-ranking Catholic said Friday. |
| How helping hands could hurt Haiti Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:37:00 EST Groups that helped Haitians since January's earthquake -- foreign governments, relief agencies and companies pledging to rebuild -- could hobble Haiti's long-term survival by creating a culture of dependence, some say. |
| 2008 sighting of bin Laden reported Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:39:16 EST A Belgian woman on trial in Belgium for involvement in terrorism says her husband -- himself wanted on terror charges -- met al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the summer of 2008. |
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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.