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Government officials who depend on it for services or whose. These abbreviations must be used where appropriate in nces. On may 3, 1900, the house committee on coinage, weights and measures. While an apostrophe is used to indicate possession and contractions, it is not.
All such correspondence should be addressed as follows. Epa is not obliged to follow it in all cases, but as a matter of policy follows closely because it represents an excellent compendium of good production. Official national, state and international abbreviations are listed on pages 147170 of the style manual, 2000 edition, of the u. An official guide to the form and style of federal government publishing 2016 by act of congress the director of the u.
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