BASIC	Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
CICS	Customer Information Control System
COBOL	Common Business Orientated Language
DBMS	Data Base Management System
GIGO	Garbage in, garbage out
GIRL	Generalized Information Retrieval Language
NASA	National Aeronautic and Space Administration
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
DOD	Department of Defense
EOS	Earth Observing System
USGCRP	U.S. Global Change Research Program
NSF	National Science Foundation