Word: channelized
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Today one preferred technique of hype artists is ticker spamming. A number of legitimate services like Business Wire and the PR Newswire accept press releases for a fee and channel them onto the Net, automatically sorting them onto stock bulletin boards. This gives spammers a chance to float releases, which just might mention well-known companies in the text alongside the dogs they're hyping. "You go on Yahoo, [ask for] a news story on Microsoft, and you could end up with some manufactured handout touting shares that have no prospects whatsoever," warns Kevin Lichtman, creator of the Stock Detective...
...relationship with Disney gave Aguilera an early leg up. When she was 12, she appeared on the Disney Channel's New Mickey Mouse Club. She was later signed to sing the ballad Reflection on the sound track to the animated Disney film Mulan. "What Disney provided her with was a grad school for her talent," says Rich Ross, general manager and executive vice president of programming and production for the Disney Channel. "It gave her dance, vocal and work training...
...Everyone worked together and finally after all that hard work we just managed to channel and use that energy to show everyone what we can do," said Megan L. Gaffney '02, the business manager for the Callbacks...
...never wanted to do very much as President so much as he just wanted to be President, to sit behind that big desk and make the hard calls. George Bush never promised to be an activist in the Oval Office; he just promised to keep the ship in the channel. "W," whose public agenda is not much thicker than his father's, is essentially promising the same thing, but his private agenda is more pressing. Bush's father was worried at times that "W" wouldn't amount to much, but at some point everything fell into place. Would it really...
...brave new world, supply will meet demand every time...for a price. A man who made it his business to squeeze the bejeezus out of every living creature he encountered might have been ostracized in a less modern society. Today he has a show on the Discovery Channel. Jerry Springer has made a fortune exploiting and exhibiting the perversity of others. And professional wrestlers pay their way by stripping down to their skin-tight undies and stringing together the words ismackdowni, icandy-assi and isuck iti into barely intelligible phrases...