Word: rip
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decades are unwinding. When so many consumer products--cameras, books, music, phones--are simply delivery mechanisms for digital code, 0s and 1s, even the companies that manufacture them get confused. So Sony, maker of digital hardware and digital entertainment, finds itself peddling computers that customers can use to rip off Sony music over the Internet. The hard-and-fast physical boundary between your television and your stereo is gone because they're both your computer...
...like the Fire Engines and Orange Juice. But their sound is their own, with a driving beat supplied by Thompson and bassist Bob Hardy. Kapranos' tense, observational lyrics - "Although my lover lives in a place that I can't live/ I find I like a life this lonely/ It rips and pierces me, I love the rip of nerves/ The rip that wakes me" - are augmented by occasional lines in German, the influence of Munich-raised guitarist Nick McCarthy. "You always get German bands singing in English," says McCarthy, "we just turn it round." He adds: "There's a great...
...protrude in every direction. On one two-page spread, a group of miniature playing cards arranged in an arch looks almost like sculpture. It may be best to keep the book away from the very young, who will probably be so enamored of it that they'll want to rip, crush or chew its fragile constructions...
...They’re not going to rip up the buildings now in the middle of the term so we can get the Discovery Channel...
...fact, the far more consequential--but perfectly legal--rip-off is the bevy of bloated fees that fund firms charge to manage your money. These range from loads (hefty commissions doled out to brokers or financial advisers for selling you a fund) to fees that cover advertising, marketing and distribution costs for the funds (known as 12b-1 fees). In Senate hearings earlier this month, New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer said inflated fees may be costing investors $10 billion a year...