Word: pigged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small Internet service provider called the Pipeline, seized command of the machines at the supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool of greed." It was signed by something called the Internet Liberation Front, and it ended like this: "Just a friendly warning corporate America; we have already stolen your proprietary source code. We have already pillaged your million dollar research...
...tried it out on my poor guinea pig class," he says. "I like it better than what I had been doing. I had everything but the kitchen sink in the course [last year...
...breach left by the departing authorities forced U.S. units to devise jury-rigged solutions to local problems never anticipated by the planners in Washington: stamping papers for the sale of a pig; issuing market permits; settling marital spats. In Gonaives, Captain Edmond Barton, head of a Special Forces unit, was asked to mediate a dispute over who owned a bicycle. "Every time I deal with someone in the village, I get criticized for taking sides," said Barton. "We try to show them we are being fair, but everyone complains...
...jurors. Unable to sift the complex evidence, they fell back on sheer sympathy for Imelda, who courted it with gusto. Dressed in black, clutching her rosaries, she could be seen at the defense table wiping back tears. Acquitted, Imelda threw a thank-you party for the jurors with roast pig and a belly dancer. She sang Feelings...
...MSTIES, as the show's 50,000 registered fans are called, were in pig paradise. They squealed like Beatlemaniacs when a cast member came onstage, and seemed as knowledgeable as the show's creators about every aspect of the canon. But why devote so much energy to a TV show? One woman replied, "Let's just say we're good solid American citizens with a lot of time on our hands...