Date:         Mon, 5 Apr 2010 08:17:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: OT: Obviate
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Ah, that number jumped to 96 with Art's post.  However, I don't
think that we can really count all of those as new usages of
the word.  One subject alone carried the word along through
23 posts (RE: SCL versus Macro).  Another subject (Re: reducing
length of numeric variables) carried the word along through
6 posts.  The number of unique posts appears to be more like 48.

Dale

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--- On Mon, 4/5/10, Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:

> From: Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
> Subject: Re: OT: Obviate
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: Monday, April 5, 2010, 6:59 AM
> Mike,
>
> One minor possible correction.  If you expand the
> search to include
> substrings (so that "obviates" will also be counted, the
> number jumps to
> 95.  Andrew still retains first place.
>
> Art
> --------
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 09:37:47 -0400, Mike Zdeb <msz03@ALBANY.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> >hi ... a search of the SAS-L archives at UGA shows that
> "obviate" has
> occurred
> >in only 15 postings since 1996 ... neat
> >
> >"the 15" includes one from Wanda with her link to
> http://www.loveadviceonline.com and
> >Estelle's "I Came To Hate" posting ... so I guess you
> can reduce that to
> 13
> >
> >two are from Kevin Viel ... so maybe 12
> >(one is in a note directed to Kevin Viel, hmmmm)
> >
> >yes, the list of "obviate" users does include resident
> SAS-L
> >vocabularian Paul Dorfman ("obvious"), but the first
> is
> >from Andrew Karp (in 1996)
> >
> >--
> >Mike Zdeb
> >U@Albany School of Public Health
> >One University Place (Room 119)
> >Rensselaer, New York 12144-3456
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> >
> >> Scott, G'Day mate!
> >>
> >> <yadda> <yadda> <yadda>
> >>
> >> I would bet that MP CONNECT would give you what
> you want within a SAS
> program, and obviate the need of having to create a bunch
> of extra-SAS
> >> scripts.  An opinion!
> >>
> >> Scott, best of luck in all your SAS endeavors!
> >>
> >>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >Michael A. Raithel
> >"The man who wrote the book on performance"
> >E-mail: MichaelRaithel@westat.com
>