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Thread #59418 Message #3712032
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
26-May-15 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
A lengthy, but probably not exhaustive, list of things for which "IRA" stands:
Irish Republican Army
Individual Retirement Account
Individual Retirement Arrangement (IRS)
International Reading Association
Import Risk Analysis
Individual Retirement Annuity (life insurance)
Intercollegiate Rowing Association
Indian Reorganization Act
Internal Revenue Allotment (Philippines)
Iran Air (ICAO code)
Institut Régional d'Administration (French: Regional Institute of Administration)
International Reference Alphabet (7-bit coded character set)
Illinois Restaurant Association
Interim Remedial Action
Inherited Runs Allowed (baseball pitching statistic)
Institut des Régions Arides (French: Institute of Arid Regions; Tunisia)
Institute of Resource Assessment (Tanzania)
Import Risk Assessment
Ileorectal Anastomosis
Independent Regulatory Agency
Irregular Repeat-Accumulate (coding scheme)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Illinois Recycling Association (formerly Illinois Association of Recycling Centers)
Inventory Record Accuracy
Integrated Risk Assessment
Immediate Response Account
Institut de Recherche Aérospatiale (French)
Individualized Residential Alternative (New York)
Investor Rights Agreement
Institut de Radiophysique Appliquée
Impulse Radiating Antenna
Inverness Royal Academy
Informal Rate Agreement
Incubateur Régional d'Aquitaine (French: Aquitaine Regional Incubator; Aquitaine, France)
Institut de Recherche Agronomique (Cameroon)
Interim Removal Action
Interim Response Action
Independent Research Agency
Institutional Research Award (NASA)
Internet Routing Address
Information Research Associates
International Racing Association
Intelligence Related Activity
Independent Reporting Activity
Information Requirement Analysis
Indiana Rehabilitation Association
Iterative Refinement Algorithm
Interface Requirements Analysis
Internal Revenue Association
Intelligent Reuse Advisor (CASE)
Intercon Research Associates
Initial Request Analysis
Inspection Régionale de l'Agriculture (French: Regional Agriculture Inspection; Senegal)
International Roaming Agreement (telephone networks)
Item and Release Application
International Reiki Alliance
Interrogation Réponse Aéronautique (French: Aeronautics Interrogation Response; Directorate of Civil Aviation; France)
Information Retrieval for Advertising (workshop)
Initial Risk Assessment
Information Research and Analysis (University of North Texas; Denton, TX)
Information Retrieval Agent
Industrial Rope Access
Individual Right of Action (legal claim)
Inventoried Roadless Areas (various locations)
Investor Relations Association
Islamic Rating Agency (banking)
Issue Resolution Agreement
International Retrovirology Association
International Regulatory Affairs Updates (est. 2004)