He collected data, spread the word and became a matchmaker of sorts.
Initially, it was poems and songs, and then it kind of became the spoken word through hip-hop.
Its cloth factory in Gujarat was legendary for efficiency, and its Vimal brand became a household word.
George Lucas has been at the forefront of transmedia, long before the term became a buzz word in Hollywood.
Enron became a by-word for corporate irresponsibility, all of its community and environmental work undermined by the fact that it was carried out by a company with dishonest business practices.
Peter, so named because it was initially the only word he would respond to, became the subject of satires by Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe as his fame spread, and a wax figure of him was exhibited in the Strand.
Through word of mouth, this French film became a sleeper sensation over the course of the year.
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Mr. Polanco testified that when it became known he had contacted Internal Affairs the word "rat" was written next to his name on a roster posted in the 41st Precinct where he worked.
Additionally, the system creates a sort of targeting reticule that appears over nearby cars, letting you know when you're perhaps driving a little too close. (That, of course, is when you have to switch from missiles to guns.) The head unit recently became available in Japan, and while there's no word on a release date or price in the US, hopefully it won't be long off.
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During that time, the word "moor" itself underwent a change of definition: Originally meaning a Muslim, it became a generic term for any person from Africa or from the Ottoman Empire.
But after eBay became the preferred place on the web to trade collectibles in the late 1990s, largely through word of mouth, it quickly entered a virtuous circle in which more buyers attracted more sellers, who attracted yet more sellers, and so on.
Dr. SCHAWINSKI: Yeah, as discoveries usually are named after their discoverer, it has been named after Hanny van Arkel, but instead of calling it Hanny's Object, it quickly became known in our online community as Hanny's Voorwerp - voorwerp simply being the Dutch word for object but it sounds cooler.
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