Acronym	Definition
GRID	General Repository for Interaction Datasets (database)
GRID	Global Resource Information Database
GRID	Gay-Related Immune Deficiency
GRID	Global Command and Control System (GCCS) Requirements Database
GRID	Growing Interest in the Development of Teaching Science (EU funded project)
GRID	Graphic Retrieval and Information Display (US NASA)
GRID	Global Regulatory Information Database (Regulatory DataCorp, Int'l.)
GRID	Geospatial Repository and Data Management System
GRID	Gamma Ray Imaging Device
GRID	Generating Renewable Ideas for Development
GRID	Graphic Interactive Display
GRID	Georgia Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
GRID	Global Risk Information Databases
GRID	GCSS-AF Requirements Integration Directorate
GRID	Ground Radio Interface Devices

References in periodicals archive

* After categorizing the disease as an epidemic in 1981, the CDC drops the term gay-related immune deficiency for the more accurate acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

The article examined the host of medical problems being attributed to the syndrome, then known as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency), asking: "Is our 'lifestyle' hazardous to our health?" The rare skin cancer Kaposi's sarcoma and a number of other ailments that were killing hundreds of gay men prompted the government to seek a single cause, but HIV had not yet been identified.

An epidemic appears

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