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  • initialism NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity.
  • initialism IATA code for Nadi International Airport.
  • initialism National Assembly of Nigeria.

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Examples

  • BERNIECE "NAN" ACORD, 80, of Aracoma, widow of Jack Acord, died Wednesday at Logan Regional Medical Center.

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  • The confidential informant infiltrated a NAN meeting on May 3, 2008, and reported back to the NYPD's Intelligence Division, according to a document marked "secret," which was obtained by NYPD Confidential.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

  • To be honest with you, a lot of what MSNBC does is considered on the left—it's issues that NAN does.

    For Sharpton, an Odd Stage Michael Howard Saul 2011

  • + 'The City of' NAN-HAI '' [ 'of a Country of' China ''] + 'forty'one'

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  • Al Sharpton's National Action Network NAN as the group was organizing large-scale protests of the Sean Bell case acquittals, a police document shows.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

  • In NAN's case, the group was planning acts of civil disobedience, which had nothing to do with terrorism.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

  • According to related Intelligence Division documents sent to this reporter, the department in 2008 was especially concerned about a group known as the New Black Panther Party, which the informant mentioned in his NAN reporting: "The only member of the NBPP New Black Panther Party that will be arrested will be Brother David X. He is responding to 415 Atlantic Avenue with Sister Kadidra," the document read.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

  • According to the police document, the informant, who was identified not by name but by a five-digit number given to him by the department, provided the NYPD with a detailed description of NAN's protest plans, including the names of prominent African-Americans set to participate, the locations where protestors would gather and the number of demonstrators who would offer themselves up for arrest.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

  • The document described a series of demonstrations NAN had planned for six different locations on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, including one at Police Plaza.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

  • The informant had attended the NAN meeting a week after a Queens judge had acquitted three detectives of the fatal 50-shot killing of Bell and the wounding of two of his friends in November, 2006.

    Len Levitt: Spying on the Rev. Len Levitt 2012

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