Word: hijack
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Fanning never intended to hijack the music industry. The idea for Napster just came to him as he was sitting in his dorm room at Northeastern University in Boston, hanging out with his bros, drinking a brew and listening to his roommate whine about dead MP3 links. Fanning, whose high school nickname was the Napster (a reference to his perpetually nappy hair), just shrugged. But he began thinking there might be a way to access files without going through a website. He had taught himself Unix programming between his junior and senior years at Harwich High in Cape...
...seems unlikely the issue will prove a major stumbling block for Lazio. For the Clinton campaign, however, the danger is immediate and considerable: Not only has she raised questions about her commitment to a soft-money ban by hedging over the agreement, she's allowed Lazio to hijack an issue she once controlled. Lazio met her demands, gathered those signatures, and showed up at her doorstep like a proud cat presenting a hard-won mouse to its horrified owner...
Critics of trial lawyers say Scruggs and a cabal of his colleagues are using litigation to hijack hot-button social issues that should be resolved in Congress and the state legislatures. "Trial lawyers are an unelected fourth branch of government," fumes Walter Olson, an author and trial-lawyer foe. Corporate executives complain that the cost of fighting lawsuits, let alone losing them, drives up prices of products ranging from ladders to automobiles and holds down wages and job creation and profits. Adding to the outrage: many plaintiffs' lawyers are getting very rich. The tobacco-settlement legal fees--to be shared...
...Detroit suburb, a man walked onto a private plane and greeted the co-pilot with "Hi, Jack!" The salutation, picked up by a microphone and interpreted as "hijack," caused police, the county sheriff's SWAT team and the FBI to arrive at the scene...
...NARROWCASTERS Today's broadcasting industry will become increasingly personalized, working with advertisers to create content (read: product placement) just for you. Ambient commercials will also hijack your attention by using tastes and smells, with the ultimate goal of beaming buy-me messages directly into your brain...