Word: backlasher
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...G.O.P. HAMMERED YOU, AND SLIM-FAST DROPPED YOU AS ITS SPOKESWOMAN FOR WHAT SOME TERMED VULGAR COMMENTS DURING A KERRY FUND RAISER. WHAT WAS THE BACKLASH LIKE...
...spied upon?’” The ensuing two-hundred-word editorial could have been penned by a nineteenth-century robber baron. Also, in case you were wondering: “Guess what happens when courts, not legislators, make laws? There’s a backlash. Duh.” Don’t have...
...spokesman for the University of Washington said the school had not been hit with a taxpayer backlash after luring Emmert away from his previous post as chancellor of Louisiana State University this spring...
...Immediately after the Nov. 2 murder of firebrand filmmaker Theo van Gogh, 47 - whose recent work included a controversial attack on Muslim violence against women - a Dutch Muslim man with alleged ties to a terrorist gang was arrested for the crime. That touched off a violent anti-Muslim backlash, which has forced some Dutch citizens to question the limits of free speech, others to ask whether the country's age-old reputation for tolerance is a thing of the past, and still others to wonder whether their grand experiment in integration has ignited an all-out clash of civilizations...
...response to the type of search a user enters. RSS suppliers would include either graphic or text ads in individual RSS feeds, much as e-mail newsletters currently feature ads. But many remain wary of muddying RSS with advertising. "I think there's the potential for a backlash against ads in feeds," says Eric Peterson, an analyst for Jupiter Research, because they might alienate users by destroying the flow of clutter-free information. The danger, RSS proponents realize, is that RSS ads could become just like Web pop-ups or e-mail ads - another form of spam. But Peterson doubts...