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Each genre demands that you top your every previous excess, which results in the alphabet-soup of extreme porno fare – even the acronyms are too horrifying to spell out – and in Final Destination's increasingly anaemic death-porn equivalent.
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The Obama administration is reportedly “backing away from seeking a major reduction in the number of agencies overseeing financial markets … suggesting that the current alphabet-soup of regulators will remain mostly intact.”
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But financial planning is a wide-ranging field with an alphabet-soup of designations - from CFP (certified financial planner) to ChFC (chartered financial consultant) to PFS (personal financial specialist).
Wanted now: clear, consistent fiduciary standards for investment advice Michelle Singletary 2011
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By 2009 the will of the alphabet-soup quangos is absolute: more consultation, swifter destruction.
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There will be PowerPoint presentations, Q & A sessions, FAQ handouts, IPO documents, SEC disclaimers, CEO statements, CFO explanations and other alphabet-soup stuff.
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Its various alphabet-soup agencies — the WPA, AAA, NRA and even the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) — failed to create sustainable jobs.
Did FDR End the Depression? Burton Folsom Jr. 2010
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Its various alphabet-soup agencies — the WPA, AAA, NRA and even the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) — failed to create sustainable jobs.
Did FDR End the Depression? Burton Folsom Jr. 2010
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Its various alphabet-soup agencies — the WPA, AAA, NRA and even the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) — failed to create sustainable jobs.
Did FDR End the Depression? Burton Folsom Jr. 2010
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Rice was never a fan of alphabet-soup talkfests like the ASEAN Regional Forum -- which brings together the foreign ministers of more than 20 countries.
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For one, the dominant issues of our time and the agendas of multinational corporations (and their complicit governmental sponsors) have been thoroughly exposed, and people around the world are by now familiar (at least in passing) with the WTO, IMF, G8, and all the rest of the alphabet-soup elites.
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