Word: handout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Monday afternoon to find two strange men packing my roommates' and my possessions into a cardboard box. Our microwave, toaster, hot pot, rice cooker and candles were labeled with our room number and stuffed into the box. Citing vague safety violations, their supervisor left me with a printed handout on fire safety regulations and an assurance that the "violations" would be returned at the end of the year...
...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, a website devoted to ferreting out scams...