echo term name outside the loop, using term slug

You can use get_term_by to get the term object if you know the slug and then just echo out the name ex:

$by = 'slug';
$slug = 'may-2012-newsletter';
$taxonomy = 'mailers';
$term = get_term_by( $by, $slug, $taxonomy);
echo $term->name;

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