There are few subjects more tedious than audits and oversight of the alphabet soup empire of the U.N.
In the alphabet soup of Washington, ATRA fixed the AMT, sort of.
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There is an alphabet soup of welfare programs that create disincentive to seek gainful employment.
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Mr. Fasci says officials are trying to improve coordination among Mexico's alphabet soup of different law enforcement bodies.
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So are a raft of ad exchanges, so-called demand-side platforms, and an alphabet soup of other ad tech companies.
And can your chair at least understand the subject matter when the alphabet soup of 162(m), 280G and 409(A) are discussed?
These days, more than 1, 000 agencies world-wide vie with one another to bestow on products an alphabet soup of kosher insignia.
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The director of the Social Market Foundation, Philip Collins, says endless tinkering has resulted in an ineffective "alphabet soup" of qualifications.
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The first was that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ratified a new standard in the ever-growing alphabet soup of specifications relating to Wi-Fi.
Look for the addition of the IMF in the alphabet soup equation as western markets and economies hinge upon success in the region.
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The end result is a chaotic alphabet soup in which different sounds are rendered the same way and the same sounds rendered differently.
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The company's 1, 600 engineers crank out handsets that work with the full alphabet soup of voice and data networks, including CDMA, GSM, EV-DO and Edge.
Congress is also cooking up an alphabet soup of tax measures to offset some of the outlays, and how it turns out is anyone's guess.
Alas, the breakdown of the peace process has left the region with nothing to show for its capital letters but a hefty helping of alphabet soup.
But in my experience, the real gear geeks are heavy into microphones, a mysterious world of invisible "pick-up patterns" and model names that read like alphabet soup.
Meet the Federal Housing Administration or FHA. It found life under Roosevelt in 1934 as part of his alphabet soup answer to extricate America from depression.
Exam candidates must have a bachelor's degree, three years of experience and complete a CFP Board-registered education program--or have earned one of an alphabet soup of other credentials.
The other half of his message was that a properly managed effort concentrating on firepower and bigger European defence budgets, not institutions or alphabet soup was not only desirable but urgent.
Among the VVIPs on the guest list will be heads of state, royalty, the CEOs of global corporate giants and the heads of a veritable alphabet soup of international organizations.
Baylor fans spilled onto the field at the final whistle, and shirtless fans with the painted letters of their alma mater on their chests bobbed through the crowd like human alphabet soup.
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The BOE also declined to add to its Asset Purchase Target (APT), another acronym in the alphabet soup of names for quantitative easing programs, leaving it on hold at 375 billion.
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Or the Federal Reserve could add to the alphabet soup of lifelines created in the last year to handle the credit crisis, including a variety of auction and loan programs to help banks deal with troubled balance sheets.
At the same time, an alphabet soup of influenzas, including the new H7N9 outbreak in China, smoldering incidents of H5N1 bird flu in Southeast Asia, and even periodic reminders of the 2009 H1NI swine flu pandemic, remain front of mind.
The alphabet soup of different flash memory technologies is already a little bewildering, but it looks like the latest entrant could end up being the most promising of all, with single chip storage capacities of 1TB expected within ten years.
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At the same time Congress surrendered and the courts pried away congressional prerogatives and delegated both congressional and presidential power to an alphabet soup of independent executive agencies, which empowered unaccountable bureaucrats at the expense of both the Congress and the president.
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It makes the crops local farmers grow almost worthless, which makes them stop growing food and drives them to move to places where foreigners pass out free food, which lays waste to those areas which must produce food after that alphabet soup of aid agencies have moved on to the next crisis.
Like many cellular technologies, mobile TV standards differ by region, forming an alphabet soup of acronyms: wireless technology company Qualcomm 's MediaFLO in the U.S., DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handhelds) in Europe, T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast) in Korea, and ISDB-T (Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Terrestrial) in Japan and Brazil.
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