Today only the initials HMV are used but items bearing the image have become highly collectible.
Court hearings have been closed, records sealed, and the man is identified only by the initials M.
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S., after the initials of the four partners, it was soon dubbed Hags by the male legal establishment.
He gave a black cap with the initials to his late friend's father.
The initials "S" and "U-Z" were embroidered on the pocket of the shirt.
Leon Redwood told the Old Bailey he sprayed the initials "GB" after finding her in a former team-mate's bed.
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The organization (the initials stand for United Services Automobile Association) was begun by Army officers who could not get car insurance.
Everything from how the first name sounds with the last name to how the initials appear on a monogrammed towel will be checked, double-checked, triple-checked.
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Siebert imposed tough new protective measures in New York, and liked to remind people that the initials of her title, Superintendent of Banking, were S.O.
The initials "CI" (for Custom Integration) in the three models noted above emphasize the inclusion of special features and capabilities geared specifically toward professional custom integrators.
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Michael Scott Speicher found what appear to be the initials "MSS" scrawled on a wall of a cell in the Hakmiyah prison in Baghdad, an official tells CNN.
That means that the exchange traded fund industry may have already moved beyond the realm of the average investor before he even understood what the initials ETF stand for.
It does not take much research to discover that BYD are the initials of the Chinese characters Bi Ya Di, which does not mean anything but sounds foreign or Western.
The Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals, better known by the initials ICMI, which he chairs, expected their members to get seats in the cabinet, as Habibie favorites did in the previous one.
The pension fund, which goes by the initials CalSTRS, "believes Wal-Mart's board is dominated by directors beholden to the Walton family rather than shareholders, " the fund's governing board said in a statement.
Those guarding the former Iraqi leader developed a sort of rapport with him, giving Hussein the nickname Vic -- derived from the initials V-I-C posted near his name in the holding facility.
In keeping with South Korea's own evolution into a highly skilled and innovative economy, LG has come a long way from the Lucky Goldstar days (since 1995 the initials have instead stood for Life's Good).
The illusion is only broken when you see behind the wood panelling the iron support structure, embossed with the initials of the London Passenger Transport Board, from whom parts of Tube tunnel were borrowed to build the complex.
"Luckily, since we changed roles a few months ago, I don't have to deal with filings, and the DOJ, the SEC or other acronyms, " Mr. Brin said, using the initials for the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.
In his Sunday AM interview, Mr Prescott confirmed that he wore a cowboy outfit, including a Stetson hat, cowboy boots with spurs and a buckle with the initials JP on it, during a visit to Mr Anschutz's Colorado ranch.
Typically, Gonzaga gives the subjects initials to choose from, and the couple uses them to come up with a moniker.
Is this the most initials to appear against a batsman's name on any scorecard?
Without that sort of evidence, we default to the most likely scenario and that belongs to someone with the actual initials G.
So off she went and, with two investors, started BBH, named for the first initials of their last names (King's last name until a recent remarriage was Bishkin).
Twenty-five years ago, when I was a junior flack at Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HWP - news - people), the very initials DEC struck terror in my workmates.
Paterson's runner Tim Kjenstad, a 51-year-old California firefighter, has run Badwater before, but this year, sacked by severe dehydration and bodily functions that don't need to be mentioned, he had to DNF (the dreaded initials for Did Not Finish) at mile 44.
Hays said the lawyers could have used the parents' initials or included less detail about the family.
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But if British incrementalism wins out, a compromise could be to scrap the titles but restrict the users to the sets of initials which already come attached to the titles (indicating chivalric orders, if you must know).
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