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Modem, NAFTA, Yuppie: We're surrounded by so many abbreviations that we sometimes forget what they stand for.

Modem, NAFTA, Yuppie: We're surrounded by so many abbreviations that we sometimes forget what they stand for. Remind yourself with the over 40,000 abbreviations entries treated here. Some have multiple meanings, many are jaw-breaking memory devices, and others go from the clever (the Fleet Observation of Oceanographic Data calls itself FLOOD) to the unfortunate: CRAC is the Construction Research Advisory Council. With the military computer industry, business, politics, and the arts accumulating abbreviation systems of their own, you need a ref. bk. like this dict. of abbrevs. to keep up!