Word: copycat
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Police suspect that Abu Tir was carrying out a copycat attack, similar to one on July 2 in which an Arab worker, apparently after a salary dispute with his boss, turned his bulldozer into a lethal weapon, killing three people on a main street in Jerusalem before he was shot dead. The July 2 attacker appears to have acted alone, with no ties to any Palestinian militant group. Although Tuesday's attacker, Abu Tir, was part of the extended family of a jailed Hamas member of the Palestinian legislature, no militant group has claimed responsibility for his attack...
Kagan urged community members not to share the e-mail with others in order to avoid publicity that might lead to "copycat threats." She said that "[t]hreats against the Harvard community and its members are not uncommon," but that she wanted to inform faculty and staff "out of an abundance of caution...
...music industry at the top is very, very small,” he says. “And everyone is a copycat in a way. Once one person grabs onto something then a million people do. And so that’s sort of been our story all around. Pharrell gets behind it and Kanye gets behind it and people who otherwise wouldn’t look, look. And I think it is all hype until people hear the album...
...being the best--or the highest priced--doesn't guarantee profits. Attacked by Japanese copycat brands from below and other cult brands from above over the past decade, the audio market has become a rough place for niche labels like McIntosh. That led to a buyout 4 1/2 years ago by D&M Holdings, a Japanese audio company traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange--a far cry from the rural headquarters of the McIntosh Laboratory in Binghamton...
...Gloor says his museum's security measures are being "looked into." Meanwhile, fearing "copycat thefts," the museum decided to close its doors to the public for an undetermined period of time, though carefully screened and chaperoned group visits can still be arranged...