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Article: Wits Coin a Few More Scrabble Contenders.
- Article from:
- American Banker
- Article date:
- January 10, 2000
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"Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" may be the hottest game show on television, but bankers and policy gurus are moving into the bonus round of "Name that Statute."
After an American Banker story last week on the plethora of catchy pseudonyms for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (ranging from "FinMod" to "Glubba"), more names began pouring in from readers.
"We've been calling it 'GleBA,'" wrote Ray Messina, a government relations executive for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. He and his co-workers rejected FiSModA (fizz-MO-da) because it was "too reminiscent of FSLIC" (FIZZ-lick), the defunct Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., Mr. Messina added.
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