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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Mr. TERRY O'CONNOR (Oil Shale Program, Shell Oil Company): It's called the in-situ conversion process or the acronym, ICP.
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South Africa joined the group in 2010, giving it the current acronym.
Again, these gestures are organized conceptually, no ordered (for instance) by how they are presented in Gmail or in relation to the CRUD acronym.
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Researchers in the field use the acronym MEMS, for micro-electro-mechanical systems.
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With the expansion of the European Union in May 2004, the political language gained yet another acronym - the "A8".
"We are looking into the most effective and fastest way of helping MONUC, " he said, using the French acronym for the U.N. mission in Congo.
The question is not whether the ill-advised decision taken last week by the secretive Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (known by its acronym, CFIUS, pronounced syphius) will be undone.
The steel magnate expects future demand in the steel industry to be driven by the "BRIC" countries--an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Though that string of words may sound like an awkward stretch to find an acronym, the book remains in print.
The later phrase Grabowski also adopted in acronym form (DNG) for a secret bank account he used to hide money from his now ex-wife.
Next week, the leading industrial democracies will gather in Paris to hold what may be one of the most important meetings in the history of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls, a group known best by the acronym COCOM.
The name, an acronym of the founding members'names, ironically means "God" in Sanskrit.
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ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language, once enjoyed a greater degree of sympathy, especially in the days of dictator General Francisco Franco, who brutally repressed Basque culture.
Goldman's view of the world seems dominated by its faith in the emerging economies, notably the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), an acronym coined by Jim O'Neill, a strategist who has been promoted to head its asset-management division.
One is Lech's twin brother, Jaroslaw, leader of the opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS in its Polish acronym).
Called the AMD Fusion Developers Summit (AFDS, as if we needed another acronym), the conference was the second in this particular series.
In an era when MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) was the acronym the world over, Lees toys with the madness under the political gloss to brilliant effect.
Add in Italian and Spanish sovereign debt, too (hence, the PIIGS acronym) and, as the table shows, exposure is still below 1% at six of the banks.
Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement, better known by its Arabic acronym Hamas, grew out of a Brotherhood charity in the West Bank and Gaza which sought and obtained recognition from Israel in the 1970s.
Laurent Nkunda, who leads troops of the National Congress for the Defense of the People, told CNN in a phone interview he wants to start working Friday with the U.N. mission in Congo, known by its French acronym MONUC, to allow people back to their homes.
The key tool to achieve the phase-out of state income taxes in every state is known as the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, identified with the acronym TABOR.
The acronym-laced memorandum goes on to detail all the expensive ways in which such implementation will proceed.
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The acronym BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs ( NYSE: GS) in 2001 in a chicken-and-egg prophesy: causing Russia, China, Brazil and India to see their interests as potentially aligned, and politically worth aligning.
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In making this assessment, the CIA relies on four basic human motivations, described by the acronym MICE: money, ideology, conscience and ego.
When his youngest daughter was born in 1976 while he was in jail, Yadav mischievously named her Misa, after the law's well-known acronym.
Members of barter clubs receive Local Alternative Units, or TEMs for their Greek acronym, in return for some product or service rendered to another member of the closed community.
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In his speech, President Bush will probably describe his vision of a NWO as the acronym mongers are calling it as an international arrangement whereby all states, regardless of differences of ideology or of governmental system, join together to prevent aggression.
The economic downturn of the past few years has seen the number of young people leaving education and struggling to find work grow to an extent whereby the acronym "Neet" has been coined for them - standing for "not in education, employment or training".
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