ABC
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ABC are the first three letters of the Latin alphabet
. They may refer to:
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...
. They may refer to:
Broadcasting media
- American Broadcasting CompanyAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, a private US broadcaster - Australian Broadcasting CorporationAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
, national publicly funded broadcaster of Australia - ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network (formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company)
- ABC (Swedish news programme)ABC (Swedish news programme)ABC is the name of a regional news programme for the Stockholm County and Uppsala County in Sweden broadcast by Sveriges Television . The programme was started in 1987, making Stockholm and Uppsala the last counties in Sweden to receive regional television news.The programme is broadcast from the...
, a regional news programme - Asahi Broadcasting CorporationAsahi Broadcasting Corporationis a regional radio and television broadcaster headquartered in Osaka, Japan, serving in the Kansai region.-Offices:*Headquarters: 1-30, Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Japan...
, a Japanese commercial television and radio station - Associated Broadcasting CompanyAssociated Broadcasting CompanyThe Associated Broadcasting Company, Inc is a television network in the Philippines, with main broadcast facilities and transmitter located at 762 Quirino Highway, San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City. The network was previously known as the , Associated Broadcasting Company remains the legal...
, a Philippine television network - Associated British CorporationAssociated British CorporationAssociated British Corporation was one of a number of commercial television companies established in the United Kingdom during the 1950s by cinema chain companies in an attempt to safeguard their business by becoming involved with television which was taking away their cinema audiences.In this...
, a former British film and television company - ABC (newspaper), Spanish daily newspaper
Cars
- ABC (1906 automobile)ABC (1906 automobile)The ABC was an American high wheeler automobile built by A B Cole in St. Louis, Missouri, USA from 1906 to 1910.Known as the Autobuggy from 1906 to 1908, it was billed as "the cheapest high-grade car in America", and was available with two-cylinder and four-cylinder engines, friction drive, and...
, an American car - ABC (1920 automobile)ABC (1920 automobile)The ABC was an English car manufactured between 1920 and 1929 by ABC Motors.It was a light car , powered by a 1203 cc flat-twin, air-cooled engine designed by Granville Bradshaw...
, an English car - ABC (1922 automobile)ABC (1922 automobile)The ABC was a light car planned and advertised by the Arthur-Boynton Company of Albany, New York in 1922. It never materialized; had production begun, the car would have sold for $300.-See also:*ABC ....
, a planned American car - Active Body ControlActive Body ControlActive Body Control, or ABC, is the Mercedes-Benz brand name used to describe fully active suspension, that allows control of the vehicle body motions and therefore virtually eliminates body roll in many driving situations including cornering, accelerating, and braking.In the ABC system, a computer...
, a type of automobile suspension technology - ABC MotorsABC MotorsABC Motors Limited of Hersham, Surrey, England was a manufacturer of cars, aircraft, motor scooters, and engines for road and air. Established by Ronald Charteris in Hersham, Surrey in 1912, its chief designer was the young and talented Granville Bradshaw...
, an English manufacturer of aircraft, aero engines and cars
Companies
- ABC Stores (Hawaii)ABC Stores (Hawaii)ABC Stores is a chain of convenience stores based in Honolulu. Of their 78 stores, 56 are located in the state of Hawaii, with the remaining locations in Guam, Saipan and Las Vegas. The company now generates more than $150 million in annual profits and employs over 900 staff.-Products:The stores...
, a chain of convenience stores - ABC GroupABC GroupABC Group or ABC department stores is one of the leading retailer in the Middle East with about 60000 sq m of retail space and 8 outlet stores...
, a department store - ABC LearningABC LearningABC Learning is an Australian company that was the world's largest provider of Early Childhood Education services. It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange with its market capitalisation reaching A$2.5 billion in March 2006...
Centres, an Australian child care business - Agricultural Bank of ChinaAgricultural Bank of ChinaAgricultural Bank of China Limited , also known as AgBank, is one of the "Big Four" banks in the People's Republic of China. It was founded in 1951, and has its headquarters in Beijing...
, a bank in the People's Republic of China - Aerated Bread CompanyAerated Bread CompanyThe Aerated Bread Company Ltd was founded in the United Kingdom in 1862 by Dr. John Dauglish. Its aim was to mass produce healthy, additive-free breads using a new bread leavening technology invented by the company's founder...
, a former and once famous British bakery and tea-room chain - Appalachian Brewing CompanyAppalachian Brewing CompanyThe Appalachian Brewing Company, commonly known as ABC, is an American brewery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was founded in January 1997...
, an American brewery - Arab Banking Corporation
- ABC Cinemas, a UK cinema chain
- Anglo Belgian CorporationAnglo Belgian CorporationThe Anglo Belgian Corporation is a Belgian manufacturer of medium speed diesel engines, primarily for the marine market, as well as stationary and locomotive engines.-History:...
, diesel engine manufacturer - Audit Bureau of CirculationsAudit Bureau of CirculationsThe Audit Bureau of Circulations of North America is a non-profit circulation-auditing organization. It is one of several organizations, operating in different parts of the world, that audits circulation, readership, and audience information for the magazines, newspapers, and other publications...
, publication circulation auditing companies- Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)Audit Bureau of Circulations certifies and audits the circulations of major publications, including newspapers and magazines in India. “ABC” is a voluntary organization initiated in 1948 and is presently operating in different parts of the world...
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK)
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America)
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)
Computer science
- ABC (block cipher)ABC (block cipher)In cryptography, ABC is a block cipher designed in 2002 by Dieter Schmidt.ABC is a substitution-permutation network comprising 17 rounds with 3 different kinds of round functions. The first 8 rounds use XORs, modular multiplications as in MMB, and an expanded version of the pseudo-Hadamard...
, a block cipher algorithm - ABC (computer virus)ABC (computer virus)ABC, discovered in October 1992, is a memory-resident, file-infecting computer virus which infects EXE files and may alter both COM and EXE files. ABC activates on the 13th day of every month....
, virus - ABC (programming language), an imperative general-purpose programming language and programming environment developed at CWI, Netherlands by Leo Geurts, Lambert Meertens, and Steven Pemberton
- ABC (stream cipher), a stream cipher algorithm
- ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)ABC (Yet Another BitTorrent Client)ABC is a free software, open source BitTorrent client based on BitTornado. It supports a queueing system with priority, global and local preference setting for downloading torrent , 3 upload options to do with completed file, and a system named Upload Rate Manager to force torrents out of queue...
, a free software, open source BitTorrent client based on BitTornado - ABC, a line of computer models designed by Dataindustrier ABDataindustrier ABDataindustrier AB or DIAB was a Swedish computer engineering and manufacturing firm, founded in 1970 by Lars Karlsson and active in the 1970s through 1990s. The company's first product was a board-based computer centered around a specific bus named Data Board 4680. This unit was used for automatic...
of Sweden - ABC notationAbc notationABC notation is a shorthand form of musical notation that has been in use since at least the 19th century, In basic form it uses the letters A through G to represent the given notes, with other elements used to place added value on these - sharp, flat, the length of the note, key, ornamentation...
, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set - Abstract base class, a programming language concept
- Acorn Business ComputerAcorn Business ComputerThe Acorn Business Computer was a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers. The series of eight computers was aimed at the business, research and further education markets. However, the ABC range was cancelled before any of the models were...
, a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers
- Alcatel Business CommunicationsAlcatel Business CommunicationsAlcatel Business Communications is a proprietary communications protocol written by Alcatel-Lucent that is based on QSIG. ABC is supported over a variety of network types: IP, ATM, frame relay, PSTN, ISDN, or leased line....
, a telecommunications protocol - Atanasoff–Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer
Economics
- ABC analysisABC analysisThe ABC analysis is a business term used to define an inventory categorization technique often used in materials management. It is also known as Selective Inventory Control...
, an inventory categorization technique - Activity-based costingActivity-based costingActivity-based costing is a special costing model that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity with resources to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each...
, an accounting method
Mathematics
- abc conjectureAbc conjectureThe abc conjecture is a conjecture in number theory, first proposed by Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser in 1985. The conjecture is stated in terms of three positive integers, a, b and c , which have no common factor and satisfy a + b = c...
, a concept in number theory - ABC formula
- Approximate Bayesian computationApproximate Bayesian computationApproximate Bayesian computation is a family of computational techniques in Bayesian statistics. These simulation techniques operate on summary data to make broad inferences with less computation than might be required if all available data were analyzed in detail...
, a family of statistical techniques
Medicine and biology
- AbacavirAbacavirAbacavir is a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor used to treat HIV and AIDS. It is available under the trade name Ziagen and in the combination formulations Trizivir and Kivexa/Epzicom...
, an antiretroviral drug used to treat HIV/Aids - ABC (medicine), a mnemonic for "Airway, Breathing, Circulation"
- ABC model of flower development, a genetic model
- Abortion – breast cancer hypothesis, a posited connection between breast cancer and abortion
- Aneurysmal bone cystAneurysmal bone cystAneurysmal bone cyst is a benign osteolytic bone neoplasm characterized by blood filled spaces separated by fibrous septa. The term aneurysmal is mainly derived from its macroscopic appearance.- Causes :...
, a kind of lesion - ATP-binding cassette transporter, a transmembrane protein
- ABC strategy for "Abstinence, be faithful, use a condom", a sex education strategy
Songs and albums
- ABC (album)ABC (album)-Recording Sessions:August 1969 - March 1970Other tracks from ABC recording sessionsI Was Made To Love HerI Hear A SymphonyYou Ain't Giving Me What I Want We Can Have FunHoney Chile...
, a 1970 album by The Jackson 5- "ABC" (song)ABC (song)"ABC" is a 1970 number-one hit song by The Jackson 5. "ABC" was written with the same design as "I Want You Back", and was first heard on American Bandstand in February 1970. "ABC" knocked The Beatles song "Let It Be" out of the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970...
, a 1970 song by The Jackson 5
- "ABC" (song)
- ABC (Jin album)ABC (Jin album)ABC is a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin. ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007. In 2008 the album was re-released by Universal Music Hong Kong with different album art.-Background:...
, a 2007 album by Chinese-American rapper Jin. ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007- "ABC" (Jin song), Jin's first single off his 4th album "ABC" (American-born Chinese)
- "ABC" (Pipettes song)
- Alphabet songAlphabet songAn alphabet song is any of various songs used to teach children an alphabet, used in kindergartens, pre-schools and homes around the world. Alphabet songs typically follow the alphabetic principle...
, or "the ABC's", a song used to teach children the alphabet - ABCs (song)ABCs (song)ABCs is the first official single by rapper K'naan on his album Troubadour. It also features rapper Chubb Rock and is produced by Track & Field . The song was also featured on the soundtrack for the video game Madden 09 and in the trailer for The Trotsky. The song can be heard in the 2010 film ...
, the first official single by rapper K'naan on his album Troubadour
Groups
- ABC (band)ABC (band)ABC are an English band, that charted ten UK and five US Top 40 singles between 1981 and 1990. The band continues to tour and released a new album, Traffic, in 2008.-Formation:...
, a UK New Wave band - Another Bad CreationAnother Bad CreationAnother Bad Creation were an American R&B and rap musical group from Atlanta, Georgia.-History:ABC consists of Romell “RoRo” Chapman, Chris Sellers, David Shelton and brothers Demetrius and Marliss Pugh, as well as “unofficial” member Adrian “G.A.” Witcher...
, an American R&B and rap musical group - Acid Black CherryAcid Black CherryAcid Black Cherry is Janne Da Arc vocalist Yasu's solo project, formed in 2007 when they went on hiatus. The band's name is often seen shortened to A.B.C..-Background:...
, a Japanese Rock band - Alien Beat ClubAlien Beat ClubAlien Beat Club are a Danish pop/R&B group, best known as second-place winners on Series 2 of The X Factor. Its members - Kasper Spring Ehlers, Marcel Mark Gbekle, Patricia Namakula Mbabazi and Stephanie Lykkehøj Gudmundsen - had originally auditioned as solo artistes at the beginning of the...
, a Danish pop band
Record labels
- ABC ClassicsABC ClassicsABC Classics is the classical music record label within the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It is internationally recognised as Australia's premier classical music label, with a catalogue of more than 500 titles...
, an Australian record label - ABC RecordsABC RecordsABC Records was an American record label, founded in New York City in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records. It originated as the main popular music label operated the Am-Par Record Corporation, the music subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company . ABC-Paramount Records' first president was Samuel H....
, an American record label
Other music
- O2 ABC Glasgow, a music venue
- ABC notationAbc notationABC notation is a shorthand form of musical notation that has been in use since at least the 19th century, In basic form it uses the letters A through G to represent the given notes, with other elements used to place added value on these - sharp, flat, the length of the note, key, ornamentation...
, a musical notation language
Ornithological
- African Bird ClubAfrican Bird ClubThe African Bird Club is a United Kingdom registered ornithological charity established in 1992. Its area of interest covers continental Africa, Indian Ocean islands west of 80° East, , and Atlantic Ocean islands on or east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge The African Bird Club (ABC) is a United Kingdom...
, a British ornithological charity - Australian Bird CountAustralian Bird CountThe Australian Bird Count was a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union . Following the first and successful Atlas of Australian Birds project, which led to the publication of a book on the distribution of Australian birds in 1984, it was suggested by Ken Rogers that the RAOU...
, a project of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union
Political
- All Basotho ConventionAll Basotho ConventionThe All Basotho Convention is a political party in Lesotho. The party was formed in October 2006 and is headed by Tom Thabane, a former minister in the Lesotho Congress for Democracy led government of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili....
, a political party in Lesotho - Anarchist Black CrossAnarchist Black CrossThe Anarchist Black Cross is an anarchist politics support organization. The group is notable for its efforts at providing prisoners with political literature, but it also organises material and legal support for class struggle prisoners worldwide...
, an anarchist political support organization - Anything But ConservativeAnything But ConservativeAnything But Conservative , also known as the ABC campaign, was a political campaign in the 2008 Canadian federal election encouraging voters to support any party other than the federal Conservative Party...
, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign - Association of British CountiesAssociation of British CountiesThe Association of British Counties is a non-party-political outsider pressure group formed in 1989 that promotes the traditional counties of the United Kingdom. It claims that the traditional counties are an important part of Britain's cultural heritage and as such should be preserved and promoted...
, an advocacy group - Anti-Bases CampaignAnti-Bases CampaignAnti-Bases Campaign is an organisation campaigning to remove foreign military bases and intelligence installations from New Zealand, and to dismantle the Government Communications Security Bureau....
, an organisation campaigning to remove foreign military bases and intelligence installations from New Zealand, and to dismantle the Government Communications Security Bureau
Religious
- Association of Baptist Churches in IrelandAssociation of Baptist Churches in IrelandThe Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland is a Republic of Ireland and a United Kingdom based Baptist Christian denomination. It is a group of 121 autonomous Baptist churches on Ireland working and fellowshipping together in evangelism, training and caring ministries...
, a Republic of Ireland and a United Kingdom based Christian denomination
Sports
- Amateur Boxing Club (alternate name of Amateur Boxing Association of EnglandAmateur Boxing Association of EnglandThe Amateur Boxing Association of England is the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England. There are separate organisations for Scotland and Wales with boxing in Northern Ireland being organised on an All-Ireland basis. The Association was founded in 1880...
), the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England - Indianapolis ABCsIndianapolis ABCsThe Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro League baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League . They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and finished second in the 1922 NNL...
, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s
Other organizations and projects
- African Black CoalitionAfrican Black CoalitionThe African Black Coalition are a group of student organizations for black students at University of California schools, formed to unite and solve issues concerning academic policy, campus social atmosphere, and matriculation of black students to the University.- History of ABC :In 2003, founding...
, a University of California student organization - Aircraft Builders CouncilAircraft Builders CouncilThe Aircraft Builders Council was founded in 1955 at a time when aviation products liability coverage was in its infancy and not readily available on the open markets...
, a provider of aviation products liability insurance - American Bowling Congress, now part of the United States Bowling Congress
Places
- ABC nations, a political term referring to Argentina, Brazil and Chile
- ABC Islands (Alaska)ABC Islands (Alaska)The ABC Islands is the colloquial name for the Alaskan islands of Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof in the northern part of the Alexander Archipelago. The islands are known for their wilderness and wildlife, which include a clade of brown bear that is more closely related to polar bears than to...
, a term referring to Admiralty Island, Baranof Island, and Chichagof Island - ABC islands (Lesser Antilles), a term referring to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
- ABC RegionABC RegionThe term ABC Region is an industrial region in Greater São Paulo, Brazil.The name refers to three smaller cities bordering on São Paulo, capital of the Brazilian state of the same name. Originally, these three cities were Santo André, São Bernardo do Campo, and São Caetano do Sul...
, an industrial area outside of São Paulo, Brazil - Academia Británica CuscatlecaAcademia Británica CuscatlecaAcademia Británica Cuscatleca is a selective, mixed bi-lingual and bi-cultural school from pre-Kinder to grade 12 situated in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. The school has more than 1,467 students in the primary and secondary schools. The student body is mainly Salvadoran with a number of international...
(ABC), a school in Santa Tecla, El Salvador - Altnabreac railway stationAltnabreac railway stationAltnabreac railway station is a rural railway station serving the tiny settlement of Altnabreac, in the Highland council area of Scotland; a settlement in which the station is itself the main component...
(National Rail code), in Scotland - American Bank CenterAmerican Bank CenterThe American Bank Center is an entertainment complex located in Corpus Christi, Texas. The complex consists of an auditorium convention center and arena. The facility hosts numerous conventions, trade shows, exhibitions, live performances and sporting events. It is home to the Corpus Christi...
, an arena located in Corpus Christi, Texas
Publications and media organizations
- ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK)ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations UK)In the United Kingdom and Ireland, ABC has two roles:* To manage and uphold standards which reflect media industry needs...
, a circulation-auditing organization in the UK and Ireland - ABC (newspaper), a Spanish newspaper founded in 1903
- Alphabet bookAlphabet bookAn Alphabet book is a book primarily designed for young children. It presents letters of the alphabet with corresponding words and/or images. Some alphabet books feature capitals and lower case letter forms, keywords beginning with specific letters, or illustrations of keywords...
, or ABC book, any of several children's books depicting the alphabet - America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (North America), a circulation-auditing organization in North America
- Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)Audit Bureau of Circulations (India)Audit Bureau of Circulations certifies and audits the circulations of major publications, including newspapers and magazines in India. “ABC” is a voluntary organization initiated in 1948 and is presently operating in different parts of the world...
, a circulation-auditing organization in the India
Technology
- ABC Dry ChemicalABC Dry ChemicalABC or multi-purpose dry chemical is a dry chemical extinguishing agent. It uses a specially fluidized and siliconized monoammonium phosphate powder. ABC dry chemical is usually a mix of monoammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfate, the former being the active one. The mix between the two agents is...
, a fire extinguishing agent - ABC weapon or Weapon of mass destruction
- Aerial bundled cableAerial bundled cableAerial bundled cables are overhead power lines using several insulated phase conductors bundled tightly together, usually with a bare neutral conductor...
, for power lines - Automatic Buffer Couplers, railway couplers
- Alice, Bob and CharlieAlice and BobThe names Alice and Bob are commonly used placeholder names for archetypal characters in fields such as cryptography and physics. The names are used for convenience; for example, "Alice sends a message to Bob encrypted with his public key" is easier to follow than "Party A sends a message to Party...
(and variants), a nomenclature convention used in cryptography
Other uses
- ABC Futebol ClubeABC Futebol ClubeABC Futebol Clube, or ABC, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, founded on June 29, 1915. ABC is the oldest club of Rio Grande do Norte state...
, a football (soccer) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Advanced Booking Charter, a kind of air travel
- Air batu campur, also known as ais kacang, a Malaysian dessert
- Alcoholic beverage control stateAlcoholic beverage control stateAlcoholic beverage control states, generally called control states, are those in the United States that have state monopoly over the wholesaling and/or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, wine, and distilled spirits....
, the American system of state regulation of alcoholic beverage sales - Alien big cat or phantom cat, a large feline that has been purported to appear in regions outside its indigenous range
- AlphabetAlphabetAn alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...
, a standardized set of letters - American-born ChineseAmerican-born ChineseAn American-born Chinese or "ABC" is a stereotype that describes a person born in the United States of Chinese ethnic descent, a category of Chinese American. Many are second-generation born after the U.S. Immigration Act of 1965 were free from limits on immigration from East Asia...
, people of Chinese ethnicity born in the USA - Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of HyndhopeAndrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of HyndhopeAdmiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope KT, GCB, OM, DSO and two Bars , was a British admiral of the Second World War. Cunningham was widely known by his nickname, "ABC"....
(1883–1963), nicknamed ABC, a British World War II admiral - Asian brown cloud Asian brown cloudThe Asian brown cloud is a layer of air pollution that covers parts of South Asia, namely the northern Indian Ocean, India, and Pakistan. Viewed from satellite photos, the cloud appears as a giant brown stain hanging in the air over much of South Asia and the Indian Ocean every year between January...
A layer of air pollution - "ABC-DEF-GHI", a song from the television show Sesame Street
- "Always Be Closing", a salesSalesA sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity....
and marketingMarketingMarketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
aphorismAphorismAn aphorism is an original thought, spoken or written in a laconic and memorable form.The term was first used in the Aphorisms of Hippocrates...
that stresses the importance of completing as many possible sales as often as possible. Notably expounded on by the character Blake in the David MametDavid MametDavid Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
-written movie Glengarry Glen RossGlengarry Glen RossGlengarry Glen Ross is a 1984 play written by David Mamet. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts—from lies and flattery to bribery, threats, intimidation and burglary—to sell...