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The professional namer behind popular brands

If you are in the business of launching a new product, the name is everything. David Placek is a professional "namer, whose Sausalito, Calif.-based company, Lexicon, has named some of the biggest products around. Lee Cowan finds out about the genesis of such well-known names as Outback, Dasani and Swiffer.
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