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It was originally an acronym, Government Employees Insurance Company.
which is baffling in the usual yankee way of something sounding like it's a government program when it is in fact an absurdly conceived private entity. auto insurance for government employees based on the frankly insane hunch that a government employee is magically less likely to wreck a car.
The moment i found out that “right to work” has nothing to do with guaranteed employment. Even wikipedia had to include a disclaimer that the American version has nothing to do with the internationally understood definition.
SPRINT means "Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telephony"
Railroad you say?