Word: wiring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...everyones' lectures end and they depart. Philip picks his nose and nibbles on his headphone wire. Just Philip and I are left. It is as though he and I have made it to the final round...
...supposed to find out that things like Spirit Week exist? Where do I look to find such announcements? Do I need to put a wire-tap on council members' phones...
Today one preferred technique of hype artists is ticker spamming. A number of legitimate services like Business Wire and the PR Newswire accept press releases for a fee and channel them onto the Net, automatically sorting them onto stock bulletin boards. This gives spammers a chance to float releases, which just might mention well-known companies in the text alongside the dogs they're hyping. "You go on Yahoo, [ask for] a news story on Microsoft, and you could end up with some manufactured handout touting shares that have no prospects whatsoever," warns Kevin Lichtman, creator of the Stock Detective...
...year the European consortium captured 55% of global-passenger jetliner sales, outflanking Boeing for the first, but probably not the last, time. Competitive prices and superior salesmanship are factors in the success of Airbus, but so is technology. Airbus beat Boeing to the market with computer-laden "fly-by-wire" technology, which, it says, enhances safety while lowering costs. The flying experience is so similar from model to model that Airbus-equipped airlines save millions of dollars in training costs...
...Wire reports were used in the reporting of this story...