Word: edisons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pretentious, self-important yuppie hipster, I thought it was a great idea to pay a baby-name consultant, an occupation created just a year ago. For $35, I got 12 name suggestions from Jennifer Moss at BabyNames.com that included four names we were already considering: Elijah, Jude, Dashiell and Edison, which is particularly weird because we totally made up the name Edison, since it's the town I'm from in New Jersey. My main concern with these is that they'll all get my son beaten up. But Moss said, "When we've done our surveys, people...
...winner of our focus group was Oliver, the fake choice we put on the list to see if people would just pick a superpopular name. Griffin came in second, followed by Ezra and then Isaac and Levi. Judah and Edison were right behind, with Zed coming in a shocking ninth out of 20, thus proving I need new friends, because ours are either idiots or trying to sabotage...
...Mike Edison, musician and author of I Have Fun Everywhere I Go ... (Faber and Faber), has traveled the world with various rock bands and become something of an expert on the short-lived liaison. I recently sat down with Edison and picked his brain on the ins and outs of intercontinental intercourse...
...this year's exit polls turn out to be more accurate than in past years, as they appear to be, it's not by accident. The National Election Pool (a consortium of ABC News, Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Fox and NBC News), working with Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International, made changes this year in an effort to do better...
...Election Day runs smoothly. At 11 a.m. Tuesday, three representatives from each of the six news organizations in the business of calling presidential elections - CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox News and the Associated Press - quarantine themselves at an undisclosed location to start poring over exit poll data supplied by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International. "I can't tell you any more than that it's in the state of New York," Gawiser says of the meeting place. (Other execs confirmed that the reps indeed meet in New York City.) BlackBerrys and cell phones are confiscated and wireless technologies disabled...