Word: pecked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Coriolanus says, we "bring in the crows to peck the eagles." The crows of the media; the crows of correctness. There's something bracing about his exhilarating contempt. It's what we miss now: not mere radio ranting, but efficacious and inner-directed contempt...
...Register needed help. Almost a year ago, the president of Heart-O-Dixie Animal Nutrition, a small chicken-feed maker in Montgomery, Ala., was looking to replace his long-distance carrier with a cheaper alternative. Otherwise, his phone bills would soon start to peck away at his bottom line. But with just two employees, Register couldn't afford to pull them from their day-to-day jobs to spend time calling carriers, requesting quotes and handling negotiations. "Phone service is one of the worst things to shop for," he says. "You have to read the fine print on everything...
...just offered a special edition of 200 T-Birds for sale in its 2000 Christmas catalog. When the phone lines opened in September, all 200 cars, priced at $41,999 each, were sold in 2 hrs. 15 min. That's more like a love bite than a mere peck on the cheek...
...ever since I saw a photo. Your typical Cybiko looks like a walkie-talkie with a teensy typewriter keyboard cloned onto it, only cooler, since it comes in four translucent colors (if you count clear and black as colors, that is). Its primary function is wireless chat--you peck out messages on the keyboard and beam them to any other Cybiko users who happen to be around. While the device's range is 300 ft., each has a kind of repeater built in, so that a message can be relayed over great distances--if you could somehow assemble a chain...
...Charles Peck, a Springfield patrol officer who was severely injured in a cruiser accident and was declared legally dead, is fighting to get death benefits as his own survivor. He has been resuscitated...