Bruce wrote:
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PS. Why is it that Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs... get to be
called by their full names, but Carly Fiorina just gets "Carly"? On the
other hand, even HP's own press office calls her "Carly", so maybe
there's some advantage to it. I recall that Paul Chu, discoverer of
high-temperature superconductivity, used to have a trick when the
chemicals he needed were in short supply: he'd have his female graduate
students call the male sales reps, and male grad students call the female
sales reps. I wonder if that's why she's "Carly" even to HP's PR people.

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Just thinking randomly,

a) In the old days, we used to talk about Bill & Dave in just that informal
manner

b) As a name (and especially as a CEO's name), "Carly" is a heckuva lot more
recognizable than Bill, Dave, Larry, or Steve

c) what did they call Lew Platt?