Word: trolled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strictures forbidding fraternization with foreign nationals, particularly Soviet citizens. For years many on Wall Street have held a cavalier attitude toward insider-trading laws. No one is really hurt by such abuses, they claimed. And besides, they complained, arbitragers, who buy and sell stocks on rumors of takeovers, often troll the gray areas of law. That is why it was perhaps only natural that Boesky's profitable relationship with Martin Siegel, the former co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., began with the sharing of mutually advantageous information. But before federal investigators stepped in, Siegel...
...waxes philosophic: "No duck is an island." When the filmmakers grow tired of fowl puns -- about an hour after the audience does -- they switch to space opera, and Howard battles a scientist (Jeffrey Jones, funny against all odds) whose body is invaded by a giant lobster-scorpion space troll. Moviegoers who are in search of a porno Zoo Parade may enjoy the bedroom tryst in which Howard's human sweetie (Lea Thompson) discovers a condom in his wallet, snuggles up and asks, "You think I might find love in the animal kingdom?" More fastidious viewers are advised to purchase...
...James L. Brooks. "Instead of getting mad at the hurt he's experienced -- which takes the fun out of success when it comes -- Danny decided instead that it's a gas things have worked out so well." It was Brooks who helped cast DeVito as Louie DePalma, the pernicious troll of the Sunshine Cab Co. on TV's Taxi (1978-83). Expectorating slurs, dancing a jig at the bad luck of his betters or revealing the winsome vulnerability of a lizard left too long in the sun, Louie ranks with Frank Burns of M*A*S*H and Mary Tyler...
...Robert Troll Jr., attorney for the bank, argued before the Supreme Court that Vinson "was not the victim of sexual harassment. The bank could not be held liable without being on some form of notice." Vinson's attorney, Patricia Barry, contended that the bank was responsible. To the skepticism of some Justices, she declared, "Sidney Taylor becomes the bank because he is the supervisor...
Such verbal interplay is made possible by a parser, the part of the computer program that interprets players' commands. The first adventure-style programs contained parsers capable only of responding to simple noun-verb combinations such as Go north, Take sword, or Kill troll. In the late 1970s, however, Marc Blank, who is now a vice president at Infocom, and a colleague at M.I.T.'s lab for computer science, devised more sophisticated parsers with the aid of an artificialintelligence language called MDL (pronounced mud-dle). Then, in 1979, Blank and newly formed Infocom released Zork I, the first...