South Hackensack, N.J.-Based Delivery Firm Adopts Acronym Name.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News) Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News (3/1/2000)
...going with the acronym. CD&L's new name isn't much better...only has five acronyms -- IBM, AT&...to change its name to FedEx...companies that use acronyms -- unless they...building a brand name, Gregory said. Acronyms are harder to...

PronProdNam (not PPN). (acronyms and product names) (column) Software Magazine (3/1/1990)
...Silverlake is a Pronounceable Product Name (PPN). It is also the code name under which IBM developed the AS/400...romantic at IBM lobby to keep the code name, instead of more annoying letters and...in its use of initials. Initials, not acronyms, because acronyms are what AS/400 and its ilk ...

It's WAM: (Witty Acronyms Multiply); What's in a name? Plenty, when groups of citizens want to call attention to their causes. Sunday News Lancaster, PA (4/28/2002)
...to complete the acronym. "You create a...to retain" the name, Vilella said...compelled to pick a name that lends itself to a clever acronym. When a group...another well-known acronym; according to...give itself a name that people would...

By any other name.(the FCC and new digital audio radio satellite acronyms) Broadcasting & Cable (10/21/1996)
...officials last week were amusing themselves by thinking up new acronyms for the spectrum. Sources say FCC Deputy Chief Economist Greg Rosston offered the tag name GREGS, for Gobs of Really Excellent Government Spectrum. Another official suggested Newly Acquired Bands, whose acronym might alarm ...

S.O.T.A. has art of selling high-tech fashions in the underground. (clothing store whose name is acronym for state-of-the-art) Daily News Record (10/23/1989)
...s wear customer has a new place to shop for the latest high-tech fashions -- S.O.T.A. The specialty store, whose name is an acronym for state-of-the-art, opened late last spring at the Underground Atlanta shopping center. So far, the results have...

New Name, Old Acronym The Washington Post (1/9/1994)
...Reproductive Rights Action League. But it will continue to use the acronym NARAL. "America must change course," NARAL director Kate Michelman...Michelman acknowledged that the organization hopes the change in name and agenda will change its public perception. "We have always...

New Name, Same Acronym. National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition (12/6/1999)
...trade association that has decided to change its name. We will not be able to refer to the American Council...really like, however, is that in an era of convulsive acronymic change, ACLI's acronym will stay the same, giving no rise to perplexity...

RECU Changes Name, Not Acronym.(Rich's Employees Credit Union is changing its name to Retail Employees Credit Union)(Brief Article) Credit Union Journal (10/11/2004)
...Rich's Employees Credit Union is changing its name to Retail Employees Credit Union, effective...66-year-old credit union said it is changing the name because Federated Department Stores is dropping the Rich's name in favor of Macy's. It is a name that captures...

Playing the name game: for GSN, an acronym that stands for diversification.(Programming)(Game Show Network is shortening its name to GSN) Multichannel News (1/12/2004)
Game Show Network will shorten its name to GSN in March and add several new reality...said network president Rich Cronin. The name change will be touted by a multimillion...marketing Dena Kaplan. Cronin said the name change isn't unlike The Learning Channel...