Word: alphabet
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...none other than Mikhail Gorbachev; Union of Euro-Asian Republics, a coinage of the late Andrei Sakharov; and Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics, a nomination from the floor. That, of course, would retain both the word Soviet and the initials U.S.S.R. (or, in the Russian language and Cyrillic alphabet, C.C.C.P.). If none of them are judged suitable, there is always the Union of Squabbling Socialist Republics...
...sexless, like a line of alphabet letters in a classroom...
Lubbock leaders have also taken steps to stamp out "the mark of the beast"--three Greek letters sigma in sequence (tough luck, advanced calculus students), three sixes or three F's. ("Note that the letter `F' is the sixth letter of the alphabet...
...mountainous corner of the Balkans, and each of today's conflicts exposes layers of the past. Friction between the various republics may reflect the conflict between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy, or Islam and Christianity, or Slav and Turk, or Slav and German. Yugoslavs do not even share an alphabet: Serbia uses Cyrillic script; Croatia and Slovenia, Roman. As the old British dictum went, Yugoslavia is a small country with big problems -- six republics, five nationalities, four languages, three religions, two alphabets and one political party. The only change today is a proliferation of parties as well...
...alphabet soup of troubled Government loan programs has added three new letters: FHA. Housing Secretary Jack Kemp contended last week that the largest Federal Housing Administration fund is running out of money. The Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, which guarantees about 690,000 home loans each year, has suffered a high rate of defaults because of sloppy supervision and falling real estate values. The fund's net worth has plunged from $8 billion in 1979 to $2.6 billion currently. Kemp has outlined a five-point plan to keep the fund solvent. His proposal would improve management and increase the premiums...