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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:26:06 -0600
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- From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- On Mon, 21 Dec 1992, Michael MacMillan wrote:
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- > AIDS. I sometimes wonder whether names like that drive people to
- > achieve.
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- I'm interested in real-life indicator names. Like a realtor named Carol
- Hill, a weatherman named John Winter, etc. Does anyone have any data on
- whether real indicator names drive people's destinies?
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- -abh
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