Definitions for "FAS"
Keywords:  alongside, incoterm, quay, fob, ship
Free Along Side.
Same as FOB but without the cost of loading onto a ship. Stands for "free alongside ship."
Freely Associated States. Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia, which are eligible for special treatment under the U.S. Compact of Free Association Act of 1985.
Keywords:  fas, usda, agriculture, nas, faculty
USDA's Foreign Agriculture Service, which administers USDA food aid programs.
A system used by The Ohio State University to track revenue/expenditure in the University's ledger accounts. We referred to the monthly accounting reports as "the FAS". It has now been replaced by the A.R.M.S. (Administrative Resource Management System). The A.R.M.S. reports are called the Standard Monthly Reports.
Faculty Academic Secretary
Ireland's national training and employment authority
Foras Áiseanna Saothair (Labour Training Agency)
Foras Áiseanna Saothair The Training and Employment authority established in 1998 responsible for increasing the employability, skills mobility of jobseekers and employees to meet labour market needs.
Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Fetal Alchohol Syndrome
etal lcohol yndrome - The developmental effect of maternal alcohol consumption on children: wide spaced eyes, mental retardation, motor problems, emotional lability.
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. Physical and intellectual developmental disability caused when a foetus is exposed to alcohol because the mother drank liquor while pregnant.
Financial Assistance Scheme
Fisheries Adjustment Scheme
The Irish word for "growth". Pronounced like... well, imagine someone with a JFK-type American accent saying "force" (FAWHSE! Say it, Frenchie!), and you've about got it. The name of the State organisation responsible for retraining the unemployed. One of the Irish government's many scams to reduce the unemployment figures is to force the long-term unemployed off the live register into FÁS schemes.
Financial Aid Services, Campus Center, UMass Boston
Financial Administrative Service
Financial Accounting Standard
final assembly schedule. A schedule for final assembly of products either to restore stock of finished products destined for a make-to-stock product, and in case of a make-to-order product to finish the products. The final assembly schedule is prepared after the receipt of a firm customer order in case of make-to-order products, it is constrained, however, by the availability of parts and capacity, and it plans the final production required to complete the production from the level where the stock level presently is (or matter scheduled) to the desired level.
Final Average Salary. Your average salary for superannuation purposes as measured by averaging your superannuation salary on your three birthdays prior to leaving the Fund.
Final Average Salary. The average of the three highest years of earnings, regardless of when they occur.
A molecule expressed on a variety of cells, which acts as a target for ligation by FasL on the surface of cytotoxic lymphocytes.
Formamidine sulfonic acid; reductive bleaching agent
Keywords:  stallion, arabian, devil, wind, family
Family Arabian Stallion (Devil Wind)
Keywords:  fwp, anglers, lake, adjacent, fishing
Fishing Access Site. An area adjacent to a stream or lake which has been acquired by FWP to allow anglers access to a water body. Fishing access sites are funded in part by fishing license fees.
Keywords:  fca, favorable, balance, trade
Favorable trade balance FCA
Keywords:  csa, alarm, canadian, cable, fire
Fire Alarm and Signal Cable, CSA (Canadian Standards Association) Cable Designation.
Federation of American Scientists
Keywords:  alignment, frame, signal
Frame Alignment Signal
Keywords:  schools, agency, funding
Funding Agency for Schools
Keywords:  second, first
First and Second