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- initialism nautical, military, China
People's Liberation Army Navy - initialism US A particular standardized examination taken by high-school students.
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Examples
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Ignore the naysayers – after all, their PLAN is for President Obama's Waterloo, NOT for anything to help this country (unless it's another WAR).
State of the Union: John King's Crib Sheet for December 20 2009
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Unfortunately, until the actual PLAN is complete, there is no way to tell the public ALL of the details of the PLAN.
CNN Poll: Americans split on Obama's health care proposals 2009
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So, anyway, my PLAN had been to use my daylight hours to get writing done on the contracted novel, and to use any extra evening hours to, well, hang out with my family and possibly write a second novel (currently the PLAN is to write a futuristic erotica novel.)
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2007
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The BIG PLAN is to continue until at least half of Global Services, or about 150,000 workers, have been cut from the U.S. division.
Lean and Mean: 150,000 U.S. layoffs for IBM? | Impact Lab 2007
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Your PLAN is probably doable on a financial basis.
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So, in PLAN B, Vanessa is having sex with her boyfriend and does a few other things that some parents may not want younger readers reading about.
slayground: Interview: Jenny O'Connell Little Willow 2006
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We need a long-term PLAN with GOALS for our manufacturing economy and a system of trade that allows imports only in some measure of equality with the trading partners import numbers.
Wheels 2009
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"About sixteen years ago, a Mr. SPENCE, a schoolmaster in Yorkshire, conceived what he called a PLAN for making the nation happy, by taking all the lands into the hands of a just government, and appropriating all the produce or profit to the support of the people, so that there would be no one in want, and all would live in a sort of _Christian
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804
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The PLAN is to discuss “give and take” with our friends or fairly neutral allies or “stick and carrot” with our enemies or country’s with whom we have a conflict.
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That's called a PLAN - something we're not used to having!
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