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A headline from this week’s New York Times — “A.M.D. to Acquire ATI Technologies” — inadvertently exposes one of the Times’s more archaic style rules. AMD is a well-known initialism for Advanced Micro Devices, but according to Wikipedia, ATI is an initialism as well — Array Technologies Incorporated. Sure, it’s more obscure, but wouldn’t consistency dictate that the Times present the two names similarly? And since AMD itself doesn’t follow each letter with a period, why should the country’s newspaper of record? The FBI and CIA get the same treatment as well.