It's a similar story for an academic with a common name trying to promote research.
The common name of Burrunan dolphins derives from the Aboriginal Australian for "large sea fish of the porpoise kind".
We call - you know, the common name is flesh-eating bacteria.
"Meow meow" or "M-cat" is the common name for mephedrone, which until 2010 was legal to buy but not to consume as a drug.
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Pajaud is not a common name among blacks, so when I walked in, why, I was told that the job had just been filled the day before.
Customers can contact the Association of British Insurers where details of some of the common name changes are kept and are therefore helpful in tracking down companies that have taken over policies.
Grown in water, as its name implies, the zesty, sweetly pungent green is the most widely cultivated of the cresses, the common name for more than a dozen small-leafed members of the mustard family.
"They kept on telling me that my name is common to some name that has popped up on the computer, so they need to follow procedure, " he said.
If it is cheap and affordable then as a common household name it will be a winner.
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Here, we republish the most harmful and the most common drug name mix-ups.
Paton christened his fictional family Kumalo, a common enough name among Zulus, roughly the equivalent of Smith or Jones in America.
The common family name of Lee is often spelled Rhee, Ri or Yi (meaning opposition leader Lee Hoi Chang, South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee, North Korean basketball star Ri Myong Hun and 16th-century naval hero Yi Sun Shin all share the same family name).
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The Marx Brothers and Karl Marx have very little in common except that last name.
Most top ten lists of common passwords include the name of the site the user is logging in to.
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The President pushed very hard, in the name of common sense and fairness, for balance, just as he had when he was trying to negotiate a grand bargain.
What's not yet clear is whether this will entail sacrifice in the common defense of liberty, or whether it is liberty itself that will step by step be sacrificed in the name of the common good.
It is a fundamental principle of our work together, in the name of our common humanity.
Glivec became Gleevec, Cidecin became Cubicin, and Antegren became Tysabri (those are for cancer, bacterial infection, and multiple sclerosis, respectively.) But changes in generic name seem less common.
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It is in the NAME of the common effort we're all engaged in, that I have voiced concerns about language and details in this latest commentary--so as to avoid precisely that scenario.
What the company needs, Mulally says, is a common look, feel and brand name for all Fords.
Penguin Books was denied its request for the transfer of penguin.org from a man with the nickname Penguin, and pop star Sting will have to find a different domain after his demand for sting.com was rejected on the grounds that sting was not his real name and was a common word.
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In fact, it's become so common that industry observers even have a name for it.
You can bookmark any page and get at it later through a common portal -- hence the Axis name.
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Typical of his ability to see patterns, he notes that, today, his rabbi's name is Harry, and the name of his ex-common-law wife rhymes with Beary.
At IGF 2010, UNESCO and ICANN signed a Letter of Intent, which sets forward a common interest regarding the internationalization of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
The end result is a music that gently triggers a series of images and feelings, none of which you can name and all of which seem entirely common.
Though organizations want and need, as the name implies, to organize people toward common goals, the reality is that most folks have their own ideas, agendas and preferences.
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The measure would end the common practice of re-registering banks under a new name.
Because social responsibility is built into their brand name and business model, they avoided the common negative perception of financial institutions, Fombrun says.
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