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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:00:56 EST
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- From: "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:26:06 -0600
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- Anne Harwell writes:
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- abh>I'm interested in real-life indicator names. Like a realtor named
- abh>Carol Hill, a weatherman named John Winter, etc. Does anyone have
- abh>any data on whether real indicator names drive people's destinies?
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- I dunno about data, but Frank Field and his son Storm are
- weathermen on WCBS-TV here in NYC. Whether it was the name or fatherly
- influence that precipitated Storm's following in his father's footsteps,
- I don't know.
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- Clear skies,
- Tom Lee
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