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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:21:31 GMT
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| Authorities: Haim's name on illegal prescription
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:51:46 GMT
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| Strong ratings for Leno's return to late-night
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| `South Park' begins 14th season by taking on Tiger
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| ABC's Kate Snow makes jump to NBC News
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| The Stooges gain entry into Rock Hall — finally
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| Guests for the Sunday TV news shows
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:12:53 GMT
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| Hong Kong awards to honor Indian actor Bachchan
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:02:45 GMT AP - The Hong Kong International Film Festival plans to honor Indian screen legend Amitabh Bachchan with a lifetime achievement award at the event's Asian Film Awards. |
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| Public Enemy's Chuck D still fighting the power
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:02:25 GMT Reuters - At the end of "Pirate Radio" -- the 2009 feature film about a '60s illegal rock 'n' roll radio station in Europe's North Sea -- an array of albums is displayed: iconic symbols of musical independence that bucked the status quo. Among the albums on display is Public Enemy's 1990 treatise, "Fear of a Black Planet." |
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| Disney to close Zemeckis studio, lay off 450
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:14:11 GMT Reuters - The Walt Disney Co plans to close director Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital facility in Northern California, laying off 450 workers there, or more than 5 percent of its movie studio division. |
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| Attic Theatre's 'Side by Side by Sondheim' Begins Limited Run
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:43 GMT Playbill - Prior to the Broadway arrival of Sondheim on Sondheim, the Attic Theatre in California presents the earlier Sondheim revue, Side by Side by Sondheim, beginning March 12. |
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| Late Corey Haim linked to prescription drug ring
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Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:29:03 GMT
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| Miu Miu's Regal Pop
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:32:00 GMT
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| Author Lewis equates Wall Street bonuses with "theft"
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:40:49 GMT Reuters - Author Michael Lewis, known for exposing the culture of excess at Solomon Brothers with his book "Liar's Poker," says Wall Street bonuses at banks bailed out by Washington are "a very elegant form of theft." |
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| Fashion's latest fixation: 3D
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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:49:17 GMT
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| Word of the day |
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.