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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:00:26 -0500
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- From: Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- In-Reply-To: <9212221230.AA23060@epas.utoronto.ca>; from "Anne Burton Harwell"
- at Dec 22, 92 6:26 am
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- >
- > On Mon, 21 Dec 1992, Michael MacMillan wrote:
- >
- > > AIDS. I sometimes wonder whether names like that drive people to
- > > achieve.
- >
- > 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?
- >
- > -abh
- >
-
- I have wondered that myself. I am involved with a public
- interest/environment group work-wise, and in one relatively small subcommittee
- there is a "Hare", a "Fox" and a "Green"....Makes you wonder.
- Agnes
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