Word: mocking
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...this was a particularly bad one at Yahoo. From their disparate points around the Web, a highly coordinated group of e-vandals succeeded in virtually shutting down the giant web site for three hours yesterday, as the company's servers struggled to deal with the hooligans' calculated onslaught of mock information requests, or "smurfing." Users who tried to log on to the site were met with frustration and error messages...
...idea of a mock debate between the student supporters of each candidate particularly appeals...
...This is Al Gore's alma mater," Porter says. "If [the] Bush [campaign] were to win a mock debate, that would be a big deal...
...Gore campaign dispatches 6-ft. "Corn Man" to protest Bill Bradley's agriculture policy, a human chicken to highlight Bradley's fear of debates and jumping-jacking senior citizens known as Gray Panthers to mock his claim that exercise would lower Medicare costs...
...bond market has taken his hints and moved accordingly. A couple of years ago I ran into Greenspan's predecessor, the aggressive inflation fighter Paul Volcker, and asked him what he thought of Greenspan's performance. Volcker, a financial heavyweight, wouldn't grade Greenspan, but he voiced a mock complaint that Greenspan was getting a lot of credit for prosperous times without having to break a sweat. The vigilantes were doing it for him. When traders whiffed inflation, they chased long-term rates higher to curb borrowing power and cool the economy...