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  • abbreviation Imperial Service Medal.
  • abbreviation Institute for Supply Management.
  • abbreviation astronomy interstellar medium

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Examples

  • He was arrested by the IDF in ISM's office, where a handgun was also found, after two foreign ISM activists, including American Susan Barclay, helped Sukiya hide.

    Daimnation!: Some "pacifists" 2003

  • Critics of the play say the ISM is a terrorist front group and that Rachel had been used as a human shield.

    Grief Crosses All Boundaries 2007

  • I do recall the ISM publishing some photos to make it look like they were, which was extraordinarily dim even by their standards.

    Monday on 18 Doughty Street 2007

  • The ISM was a non-violent group who tried to prevent home demolitions.

    The Tour-Bus Diaries: Visiting Jim Crow in his Bethlehem Condo 2006

  • As Adam Shapiro had informed me earlier, the group was told that the ISM is a Palestinian-led movement and that we were under the leadership of the Palestinians who had professional handlers to oversee what we would be doing.

    Birthleft | Jewschool 2004

  • The ISM is a private trade group of purchasing managers.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • "If the data comes out of this nature, where it's OK, then I think it's going to be hard to convince the majority of the FOMC to go along with QE3," Nomura's Nordvig said, referring to the ISM report.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • The ISM is a private trade group of purchasing managers.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The ISM is a trade group of purchasing executives.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • The ISM is a trade group of purchasing executives.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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