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In a tobacco-industry inspired move to try to shake its battered reputation, Blackwater Worldwide is renaming its family of two dozen businesses Xe, pronounced like the letter "z."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle: Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff 2009

Every day, we'd learn a different letter, which meant if you missed a day, as I once did, you'd have trouble printing your entire name until the Review Period, which would take place after we'd finished learning "z."

Earl Pomerantz: My First Valentine's Day 2008

To take it from there, this is how you got from there to point "z." so it was a way to get -- it was interesting story, but it was a way to begin to get everybody's attention.

CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2006 2006

Polls this early in the 2002 Democratic primary in District 7 showed former Senator Luis Gonzales doing very well, mostly because people didn't notice that his name didn't end in a "z."

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

But the pen in his trembling hand made queer spidery marks in the ledgers now, and his figure seven was very likely to look like a drunken letter "z."

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

Hesitant as I am to revisit this topic after I said I wouldn’t, and reopen a thread that I’d rather not see continue, I think I may have been a bit unfair in calling z. king a “troll”, per se.z. king, if you’re still reading this, I apologize for calling you a troll.

Billy Graham the Scientist? Mark 2006

So you didn’t even need to use the matrix A, just the scalar multiple, which we’ll call z.

Source Code: Preisendorfer's Rule N « Climate Audit 2005

Blackwater will now operate under the name Xe, pronounced like the letter "z."

Democracy Now! 2009

The parent company’s new name is pronounced like the letter "z."

Suspenseful With A Pencil Ever Since Prince Turned Himself Into A Symbol | ATTACKERMAN 2009

Customers who switched to this company saved an average of $x and to that company an average of $y and to the other company an average of $z.

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