Gone are such marques as the Speedwagon, the Bearcat, the Delta 88 and the Roadrunner, as well as more deserving-to-be-buried names like the Pinto, the Edsel and the Gremlin.

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The greater roadrunner has been shifting eastward into Arkansas from the west, and the white wing dove has been moving into Arkansas from the south-west.

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When the list only included improvements on existing features, 61.3 percent of participants choose RoadRunner 660 as the preferred name.

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Their task was to choose the more appropriate name for the sixth generation: either RoadRunner 660 or StreetPilot.

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Warner's sales have also been buoyed by its acquisition last year of prominent independent label Rykodisc and its purchase last January of Roadrunner Records, the home of platinum-selling hard-rock band Nickelback, Wilson said.

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Representatives of several companies, including MCI WorldCom and RoadRunner, expressed interest in the clearinghouse.

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Participants learned that the firm Garmin had adopted a sequential naming approach for the first five generations of its in-car GPS receiver, from RoadRunner 610 to RoadRunner 650.

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