So that, in all the ancient creation myths, the thing that is created is order,
things are named and given roles and a place in the world.
In Chulupí the definite article must carry information about the relation of the speaker to the person or
thing being named.
As Forbes reports, researchers find that collecting Pokémon is akin to collecting stamps or coins, all of which fall under the umbrella of what one study calls «taxonomic collecting,» where
things are named and put into groups.
As each point came up I was like wow this sounds like Paleo but there must be something setting it apart... The only
thing is the name
Trying new
things is the name of the game.
It was right after David Harbour had everyone cheering and screaming with his «call to arms» in the form of art after Stranger
Things was named Best Dramatic Ensemble.
The other
thing is the name.
My first hit was the cunningly titled Space Babes released for a the Gameling hand - held (there's plenty of fun poked at various companies in how
things are named), the first foray into creating an RPG, the genre my company, Mad Wolf Games, would become most known for in the future.
My only objection to the whole
thing is the name, please don't call her Linkle, that sounds incredibly dumb IMO
Every Year, Google announces a new version of Android, and one of the most exciting
things is the name of the latest version.
Not exact matches
It didn't really have a book of business, but there
was something to the
name and it did have some equipment and
things like that.
We can entertain ourselves behind screens; and, perhaps the
thing most severely changing group dynamics
is texting rather than picking up the phone and having a conversation or communicating, if you call it that, through Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest — you
name it.
Name badges for attendees who will have not met one another before
are one of the most important
things to prepare in advance.
The whole point
is that if your star
is rising to the point that these
names come out, then let other people call you these nice
things.
Most meeting rooms, conference centers or office rentals will provide projectors, furniture and chart pads for you, but one
thing that they won't provide
is name badges or conference lanyards.
It
is time for Daniel Snyder to act like a leader, to do the hard
thing — the honourable
thing — and change that
name.
Another
thing to note about IBLN
is that it tilts toward growth stocks and technology
names, and that has made it significantly more volatile than the S&P 500 but has failed to boost returns, Bogart said.
And, without realizing it
was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the
names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other
things.
A company's
name is usually the first
thing we learn about it, and it can color our judgment for a long time.
Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the
name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions
was simply the right
thing to do.
The Mannix brothers share many
things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their
names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National Music Centre — which houses Canada's Music Hall of Fame — came to
being thanks to more than $ 10 million in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.
A
name that conveys this both descriptively and succinctly (not always an easy balance, but few
things in business
are easy) will position you best for success.
On Amazon's affect on the sector: «I think one of the
things you can see
is that brand
names matter.
The two weakest forms of trademark
are descriptive
names, or generic
names, for example «candy» or «soda», when your product
is actually those
things.
Whatever the
name — and I repeat, whatever the
name - a great many
things will need to
be explained: products, prices, services, suites, bundles, specials, teams, tiers, partnerships, initiatives, investments, markets, territories, terms, conditions, and all the rest.
«There
were really two
things that we wanted to achieve in getting to actual
names,» Aceto says.
Any of these
things can derail what appears to
be a perfectly good
name.
In the middle of» 95, I had to give the
thing a
name, and I
was going to call it San Francisco Events, but people around me said that they already called it craigslist so I should keep it that way, and they
were right.
The last
thing you want to change
is your
name.
I have constraints in that I have to meet quarterly numbers, which
is a good
thing — it
's certainly good discipline — but it
's a bad
thing as well because if I wanted to invest, for instance, a $ 100 million to just make my brand
name more accepted for two quarters and in the third quarter I'll get traction, that
's not an option I would consider without a lot of pull.
Of course, if
things are awkward now, imagine how they'll get when Kleiner and the individual partners
named in the lawsuit file their response.
Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist
named Henry Chadwick, happened to
be a fan of cricket, a sport where there
's no such
thing as a «walk.»
One of the first
things they did
was name the product, which turned out to
be the only easy part of this journey.
When a big -
name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it,
is the biggest there
is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two
things.
«One of the
things that I've found to
be true throughout my career
is that the most important decision that a company makes on a daily basis
is who they
name manager,» Soto says.
The cash
was serendipitous, to say the least, and Newman later
named the brewery for his ability to pull
things together at the last minute — like a rabbit from a magic hat.
With Instagram stories we'll open it up and make it kind of playful, talk about how it
was named,
things like that.
At the time, Priceline
was our main rival and the «
name your price»
thing Priceline's innovation, and Hotwire's innovation
was that we showed you the price, and so you didn't know what the hotel
was until after you purchased, but we showed you what the price
was and so it took some of the guessing out of it.
Well, now we know that Theodor Geisel
's (that
's another
thing — no «e» at the end of his first
name) pen
name — which
was his mother
's maiden
name —
was actually pronounced to rhyme with «voice» rather than «moose.»»
And it
's much easier to do that than to say, «Well listen, we have free markets and we have democracy and both those
things are incredibly messy and no one
is really controlling it,» but if I give you a few symbols and attach a
name to it, all of a sudden you have an evil villain that you can pin the blame on.
Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates»
name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk
is not a «good
thing.»
I asked them to go around the room, say their
name, what job they had and to offer two examples of what
was working and two examples of
things not working.
Says Wong, «The earlier challenges
were sort of partner buy - in and getting our
name out there and
things like bonus structures for our sales team, structuring our revenue share model and putting together all the default paperwork for how we would build out our streams of relationships, so to speak.
Because if someone Googles your
name and finds nasty
things written about you, your credibility could
be destroyed in an instant.
«The future
is foreign markets, so the last
thing you want to do if you
are a coal company
is to give up a U.S. seat in the international climate discussions and let the Europeans control the agenda,» said the official, who asked not to
be named because he
was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.
In general, generics
are a wonderful
thing — they
're a lower - cost alternative to expensive, brand -
name versions of drugs.
Name: Heidi Zak Company: ThirdLove Work - life balance philosophy: I don't think there
is such a
thing.
There
's a great children
's book called «Rosie Revere, Engineer,» about this little girl
named Rosie who likes to build
things.
Unless your company
is fortunate enough to create its own industry, or to become so ubiquitous that its
name becomes a verb (i.e. «google it»), you
're going to encounter some stiff resistance from other companies that do similar
things to you.
When stepping into the creative zone, keep in mind that a great
name does more than communicate what the
thing is or even convey its personality.