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From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:25:00 -0500

 Apropos of several enquiries about this particular TLA <grin>

FUD:  "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt."

 Also used as, "FUD factor," as in, "that task has a high FUD factor."

 I picked it up from NASA usage, but it's probably much older than that.

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