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Overloaded Acronyms
Rocketeer — Thu, 02/07/2009 - 1:40am
Huh. Just noticed that the Government department with responsibility for space technology and the main UK space advocacy organisation both have the same acronym. Yay for gratuitous and unnecessary confusion! For the sake of clarity, I'll use "DBIS" to refer to the Govt. department.
I've gotten really rather fed up with the current administration's habit of changing department names every five minutes. I'd only just about gotten used to "DIUS".
Still, could be worse, could be the Department of Energy and Airborne Fertiliser ;-p
...and don't get me started on the Ministry of "Justice".
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