Word: piggybacker
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...practice is called war driving--after the old hacker game of war dialing, which is what Matthew Broderick was doing in War Games but with far fewer unintended consequences. Indeed, many of your neighbors will happily post the location of their network on the Web--effectively inviting you to piggyback on their connection...
...Mericle Harper. $14.95 This is that rare example of a children's book that's fact-filled without being dull. The "facts" are not necessarily useful or even true, which may be why the book is so much fun. In rhyme, it narrates how items such as Frisbees and piggyback rides and potato chips were invented. Harper wrote and illustrated this book, her second, and she has a spry, zippy style with pen and with brush...
WEITZ: I'll piggyback on the hotel business with Host Marriott. The stock is about $7.50. They own Ritz Carltons and Marriotts and high-end hotels. Going into this year, I expected them to earn about $2 per share, pay out $1.04 as a dividend, spend about 50[cents] on required maintenance and have about 50 cents left to reinvest in new properties. On that basis, the properties could be sold with one phone call for about $15 a share. So if it takes five years to get to $15, you make 15% a year. And I can't imagine...
This is crazy. Most of these so-called natural foods aren't found anywhere in nature. Food manufacturers are just trying to piggyback on the earlier successes of the dietary-supplements industry. After all, that was the industry that convinced us--with a little help from the U.S. Congress--that purple coneflowers might ward off colds and that roots from an Asian shrub could boost energy levels...
...inside." Mostly Jackson used his time to paint a Hallmark Hall of Fame-style narrative of the emotional abuse heaped upon him by his father Joe. "I wanted a father who showed me love, and my father never did that," said Jackson. "He never gave me a piggyback ride; he never threw a pillow or a water balloon at me." After the speech, Jackson remained in England to serve as best man at the wedding of psychic spoon bender Uri Geller. Again he was hours late, forcing Geller to improvise and hold the reception before the ceremony. Somehow, Geller...