> From: "J. P. Letellier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The military does love their acronyms, don't they <grin>?
> Yup. The Navy actually had an Undersecretary for Research and
> Acquistion who **REFUSED** to accept any piece of paper with
> an acronym in it.
My agency (the Florida Dept. of Children & Families) had its own experience
with acronyms. We were what was left of an older department, Health and
Rehabilitative Services (HRS) after many other functions had been stripped
away to form other departments (Health, Juvenile Justice, etc.). And with the
new name came an edict directly from the Secretary; no acronyms/abbreviations
so that the public can understand what we're doing. Well, within a week of
the name change and the edict, a local paper used DCF (for Department of
Children & Families) as an abbreviation. The joke was all over that we were
now an AFA (Acronym-Free Agency), and it all broke down after about a year or
so. Now that we've had a change of administrations, no one even blinks at
DCF, TANF, MIS or many of the other abbreviations/acronyms that have crept
back into use.
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