American parents can pretty much name their child anything, says Michael Sherrod, co-author of Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With.
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"It's pretty simple: His name is on the door, " one former company executive said of Mr. Dell.
These requirements led to a pretty big spreadsheet of name possibilities and many great nights in the East Village.
Indeed, it's pretty rare for a domain name to be owned by someone within the country it signifies.
But when you have a boat like this, I guess its name can mean pretty much anything you want it to.
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And the innovations of so-called "Web 2.0" (terrible name for a pretty continuous development of the Internet) prove there are great companies and products being created in the U.S. using the social dimensions of the Internet.
Until Microsoft makes their official announcement on it, this one is still firmly in the rumor category, but we've gotten word from one of our trusted sources that Microsoft has pretty much settled on a name for the next Xbox: the Xbox 360 (let that sink in for a moment, because you're probably going to be hearing it a lot for the next several years).
By its name, you can pretty much tell what this is used for.
Another name I have been watching pretty closely here is PriceSmart ( PSMT).
Now, to be fair, it was put together by a group with dot-org in its name, and it did a pretty impressive job of getting high-profile press for an arcane piece of oil-industry infrastructure.
They tried to change the name of the war on terror but pretty much went back to it.
The successful Japanese and European companies come up with a name for a model and then they pretty much stick with it even as the model evolves over the years.
By all accounts, Friedan was not a person inclined to share the credit. (Some men have been known to be this way as well.) The implication that she had diagnosed a condition no one else had even managed to identify that the problem she wrote about had no name until she named it was a pretty open invitation to revisionism.
Fortunately for Arthur, the leader of the Marine Band at the time was a pretty fair songwriter -- a young Marine sergeant major by the name of John Philip Sousa.
They called her "Yang Nan-Nan, " a pet name Shanghainese give to girls who are fair-skinned and pretty.
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"I said my name and -- because I was supposed to say my name and make a speech, but it's all pretty unclear, " she told King in January.
Giving out our name, address and credit card info is just another step toward purchasing pretty much anything.
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That's a pretty staggering admission from a company that put the term "3D" in the name of its handheld.
Incidentally, the name is a rip-off from Prairie Home Companion, with Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.
It was hard not to gain the impression that the Labour backbenchers have now pretty much moved on from Tony Blair and are treating Mr Brown as prime minister in all but name.
Such numbers go far in explaining how it is that Groupon managed to overcome dashed investor expectations and suspicious prodding by regulatory authorities with its pretty amazing quarterly earnings report and why companies such as Google, Amazon and American Express, just to name three, are trying to horn in on the market that is widely believed to be oversaturated.
Every name on that list can be called expected and deserved, but on the other hand there was pretty wide agreement that Javier Bardem would win a nod for Skyfall.
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