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(More full disclosure: Microsoft publishes Slate .) The Washington Post ? Ready for fleecing when it invests in NetGuide . Wolff admits only one person into his circle of virtue: Former Time Warner new media chief Walter Isaacson, who has since ascended to the editorship of Time . Isaacson's genius was that he understood the Web's potential but was smart enough to leave the new media division early.
Instead of princes and beefeaters, Theroux gives us a circumscribed tale about the fleecing of a dysfunctional British family by an unscrupulous businessman from mainland China.
2, 2004); Intelligence report, interrogation of KSM, July 30, 2003; Robert Block, "In War on Terrorism, Sudan Struck a Blow by Fleecing Bin Laden," Wall Street Journal, Dec. 3, 2001, p.
Noun . A crushing (humiliating) defeat, a drubbing, a fleecing, a loss, usually viewed from the receiving end: We took a right regular fxxxing at Tobruk.
Just three weeks ago the NYT ran another front-page story (different author) explaining that casinos were fleecing seniors because seniors are 1) lonely; 2) desirous of excitement and 3) from a generation with a fondness for get-rich-quick schemes.