Word: swatting
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...pleasure is the strong directing by Clark Johnson, who has quietly transformed himself from a respected TV character actor (“Homicide: Life on the Street”) to a very adept B-movie work-man—he also helmed “SWAT...
eBay's fight against a Virginia company called MercExchange illustrates how small firms swat away at larger ones, at great cost to both. In 2001 MercExchange founder Tom Woolston, a former military pilot and CIA network engineer, sued eBay, claiming that the company infringed on three patents he filed in the mid-'90s, including one that set out methods for fixed-price online auctions (the so-called Buy It Now patent). In 2003 a jury ruled in Woolston's favor and awarded $35 million in damages...
...Then the SWAT team came on," he says. "These men are serious. They came in methodically. They said, 'Hands on your heads and don't move.' There were machine guns and shot guns everywhere. They let you know they were going to use them...
...rent cruise ships to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to billet rescue workers off New York City. Reed assured Abramoff he had "put in a tag call to karl to find out the best contact at fema." Four months later, Abramoff wrote Reed that he needed some "serious swat from Karl" to get the Justice Department to free $16.3 million for a jail that his Choctaw Indian clients were planning to build in Mississippi. As it happened, Abramoff had caught Reed at a ripe moment. "Am at a lunch with Rove at the [Republican National Committee] meeting and just...
Mercedes realized it had major problems with its E-Class series soon after the launch in 2002 and moved aggressively to fix them. More than 200 SWAT teams of engineers ripped the car apart to identify and overcome the flaws, which included design and production snafus in complex electronics systems. The firm this year recalled 1.3 million cars, including C-Class and SL-Class as well as E-Class models built between 2002 and '05, took back the lemons, switched engines in some models and started providing two-year full-service warranties to disgruntled owners. In the process, the brand...