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Chad DiNenna won't say the word. It's as if someone were standing by with a bar of Safeguard, ready to wash out his mouth. "We, uh, don't like to use that word around here," says DiNenna, 28, co-founder of Nixon Watches, an action-sports-oriented watch company in Encinitas, California.
What word, Chad?
"It's kind of a bad word to
us . . . ." Heavy pause.
You mean, "extreme?"
"Yeah," DiNenna sighs.
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