When anecdotes like these begin to add up to actual datapoints, the word gets out and people stop taking meetings and roadshow presentations.

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"A lot of people who need this the most don't have their power back on yet so they don't know about it yet, " Taylor said, but he said he and his small staff are ready for a crush of applications once the word gets out.

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Pretty good for the finest wines--if you hit on a great year before some blabbermouth like Parker gets the word out.

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Sounds crazy, but it gets the word out there about what you want for your life if you are no longer in the position to tell people directly.

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The FBI was thrilled with the turn of events: "Any publicity that gets the word out that our Rebecca Rubin is wanted on various charges is certainly beneficial, " Beth Anne Steele, a spokeswoman for the FBI, told The New York Times, but the doll now carries the name of a wanted criminal.

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And when I say equal play, I mean very equal: By my rough tally, the ownership-concentration issue takes up about 192 words out of a 923-word story, while the political-reprisal discussion gets 182.

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