While few diamond makers claim name recognition today, Mr. Gassman estimates that in five years most diamonds will be branded.
The notice of claim names St. Lawrence County, which includes the hamlet of North Lawrence, and the county's Probation Department.
The claim names as respondents UBS PaineWebber; the Queens branch manager, Michael Liming Yung; and the brokers Joon Ho Chun, James H. Kwak and Sam Jin.
It claimed naming privileges to the subway stop — and the whole neighborhood — through high-powered friends in private industry and city government.
By 1971, when Mr. Gray took the company reins, the United Aircraft Corporation already had a long history as a thoroughbred of American industry, at one point claiming names like Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Northrop and United Airlines as subsidiaries.
The Save Me claim names Environment Secretary Owen Paterson and Natural England as defendants.
Here's how it works: Web site entrepreneurs scoop up unclaimed domains with generic but potentially useful names–or misspellings of already-claimed names–for $6 to $8 a pop.
The program, which allowed people to claim names that were deemed dormant by Yahoo, came under immediate skeptical fire for its potential to be harmful or dangerous to the privacy of the previous owners of the names.
TWC claimed naming winter storms would help raise early awareness of them, thereby increasing preparedness and reducing hazards.
What you name your bug shouldn't matter — some people claim naming it a certain way will lead to starting in Madagascar, but these cheats are far from 100% effective.
