After a handful of three-word responses like that, I realized she didn't care.
And in addition to learning about why lying is good, or why kids have a natural propensity to learn foreign languages, or whether chimps can talk, business executives are taking greater pains to communicate the right impression to customers in a tech-driven world where word-of-mouth can spread like wildfire to affect brand images.
And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code.
In fact, Nunberg says words from the 1940s -- like the A-word -- are more likely to survive than words invented in the '90s.
Numbers play an important role in China, with eight - which sounds like the word "prosperity" - being considered particularly auspicious, the BBC's Viv Marsh says.
It was possible because Christians don't believe that the Bible is literally the word of God - not like the Koran.
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Few things can hurt a brand's word-of-mouth like a rude hotel desk clerk, a high-pressure stockbroker or a perpetually late airline with unsympathetic flight attendants.
The tiny super-computer also boasts an impressive array of mega-hot software like Word, Excel, a picture browser, an e-book reader, paint brush -- the list literally goes on and on.
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I've always wondered who these people are who have the time to write thousand-word reviews of things like heated toilet seats.
If the number cleared, a dispatcher called it back and asked for a code--sometimes a word (like "cartoon") or the code name of a courier.
Georgian Street poetry, sonnets and rhymes almost rap-like in their word play and verbal trickery, are immensely popular too.
Chrome OS is designed primarily to work with applications such as e-mail, word-processors, calendars and the like that are stored in the cloud rather than on a user's hard-drive.
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According to Comscore, it's the most visited fitness site with 7 million users (162 million page views in January), but Spark has taken a low-key, word-of-mouth approach compared to its big bucks advertising competitors like Weight Watchers.
Application by application, basic enterprise programs like word processing, e-mail and spreadsheets are moving to the Web.
The study found that so-called "sociometric" leaders like Physician 184 had more of an influence on word-of-mouth buzz than the self-reported opinion leaders, perhaps because the latter group tend to be less involved with their peers.
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This word looked like it might trip up 11-year-old Vanya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kan.
Out of Charlotte, indeed, the Lord raised up not only a mighty preacher of his Word, but also something like an All-American prelate, a modern version of a Prince of the Church.
It helped push programs like Microsoft Word and Excel past once-seemingly invincible competitors such as WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3.
The Daily did, in fact, do its share of ambitious enterprise journalism, like this 6, 000-word jailhouse interview with renegade Amish bishop Sam Mullet, published today.
Actual genes are buried in stretches of what appear to be gibberish DNA. Picking them out is a bit like finding the words in a word-search game.
He has launched a web site and a 300-word presentation backing his view, but it seems like after digesting it the market is not very impressed.
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Much like Microsoft Word had a model for GUI-based word processing in MacWrite, touch-optimized office suites have been developed by or snapped up by Microsoft's competitors, including Apple ( iWork), Google ( QuickOffice) and RIM ( Docs To Go).
In a word, most of the movie's tear-jerking plays like a big, fat lie.
On-the-ball companies understand that digital technology is like word of mouth on steroids and they ensure that their branding initiatives are worth sharing.
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And I thought some of the individual players showed up much better in the second half, there was a lot more - passion isn't the right word, but something like that.
"The word, absolutely, is like saying that this is positively true -- this is inarguable, " Thompson says.
That package includes online e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets and document sharing, much like Microsoft's cash cow Office suite.
The trouble is that, by now, the Oprah-obsessed out there are hanging on her every word and suggestion like veritable cult members.
For this amount you get a whole bag of goodies, like word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, calendar and e-mail.
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Actually, the word we'd use to describe it is "dense" -- like a brick.
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