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  • initialism Single Longitudinal Mode laser
  • initialism Sudan Liberation Movement, also known as SLA

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Examples

  • SLM is actually describing Republicans, since smooth talking candidates with Hollywood images describe both Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    Poll of Polls: Obama more popular than his policies 2009

  • Fitch has a "BBB-" rating on Sallie Mae, which is formally known as SLM Corp. The rating is investment grade, one notch above non-investment grade or "junk" status.

    unknown title 2011

  • The company, formally known as SLM, extended $219 million in private loans in the second quarter, compared with $387 million during the year-ago period.

    Sallie Mae shares tumble on new-loan figures 2010

  • The company, formally known as the SLM, agreed to settle with its onetime buyers, which include the private-equity firm J.C. Flowers & C.mpany, J.P. Morgan C.ase and Bank of America, in exchange for a deal to refinance about $30 billion in debt that was due next month.

    The Financial World 2008

  • Yesterday, at the analyst meeting for the student lender formally known as SLM, Mr. Lord referred to his bizarre conference call with analysts last month.

    Motorola Jams Icahn's Reception 2008

  • When the LBO of the student lender, officially known as SLM, went down the tubes this month,

    Front-Row Seat 2007

  • Moody's said Sallie Mae, formally called SLM Corp., has made progress in improving its operating performance.

    unknown title 2011

  • Nuclear Sam68 protein is concentrated within subnuclear organelles called SLM/Sam68 Nuclear Bodies (SNBs), which also contain some other splicing regulators, signalling components and nucleic acids.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • NEW YORK -- Stocks slid as investors digested budget plans from P.esident Barack Obama that weighed on sentiment toward student-loan providers such as SLM and health-care companies such as Humana, offsetting gains for J.P. Morgan Chase and several financial firms.

    SLM, Humana Slide on U.S. Budget Plans 2009

  • Big, third-party student-loan players, such as SLM (or Sallie Mae) and others, earlier this year halted lending to students who pose an outsize borrowing risk-that is, subprime borrowers.

    Time to Sing Back-to-School Borrow Blues 2008

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