Word: pranking
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When Reagan caught up with New York's Alfonse D'Amato, the Senator was at a restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy. Moments earlier, D'Amato's dinner had been interrupted by a prank call from Congressman Guy Molinari of Staten Island. Convinced that his old friend was prolonging the joke, D'Amato bellowed into the telephone, "Molinari, you creep, cut out this crap!" After identifying himself, the President did not have to belabor his cause before obtaining the mortified D'Amato's support...
...parents. Soon, the renegade idealist and the venture capitalist joined forces to foul up the system by selling U.S. spy satellite codes to Soviet emissaries , in Mexico City. What delicious revenge on America's bland malevolence and institutional incompetence! What an entrepreneurial scam--the ultimate frat- house prank...
...several generations of M.I.T. engineers, the subway prank was known as the ultimate "hack," the rare practical joke clever and elegant enough to be worthy of one of the world's most prestigious technical schools. Today the best and the brightest technology students are more likely to be found hanging around a computer system than a subway system. But they still call themselves hackers, and although they insist they have been misunderstood, their relationship with the public is once again on the skids...
...Pittsburgh school will get $103 million to build and maintain the Software Engineering Institute, which will experiment with and evaluate software for use in defense projects, said Major Prank Word of the DOD's Computer Software and Systems Office...
Deputy Chief Jack W. Morse said that someone probably deliberately lit the newspapers on fire as a prank...