The phone companies did a famously bad job deploying their last big idea in digital services, ISDN, and they could bollix up ADSL as well.
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Just because this error is made as often as the word " hopefully " is misused is no reason a paid poet should bollix it up.
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Most important, though, is that, even if they lose, they don't bollix things up behind their own blue line the way they did in Buffalo.
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It could cause computers to read January 1, 2000 as January 1, 1900, which in turn could bollix accounting, payroll, tax and customer billing records, inventories and supplier relations.
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Bollix for " mess up " is no longer vulgar, having left " ballocks " in the dust; nuts ( though it used to be euphemized " nerts " ) is likewise untainted by its past.
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Tone ! and Lucy Pearl fame ), " Eternal " captures the Isleys in 2001, without messing with the formula too much _ and why bollix up something that has worked for more than 40 years?
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Iowa, for instance, might want to go with the corn quarter, while Maine chose the lobster quarter and Washington the apple, unless it wanted to bollix up Castle's plan and go with the current quarter featuring George Washington.
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"The system is a complete bollix, as far as I can tell, " said Andy Savitz, a Boston business consultant . " For me, it's just a matter of waiting to get to the live person ."
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Spanning the years 1964-69, it shows Bloomfield as a savvy artist remaining true to the blues and resisting the temptation to bollix up his sound with'60s rock and psychedelic affectations ( except for one track from his short-lived 1968 band, Electric Flag ).
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The Globe's 20 years of computerized records show very sparing use of the word from 1979 through the'80s and a gradual increase during the'90s . ( That's what happens when you quote Howard Stern . ) Like bollix and brown-nose and jerk, the formerly taboo word is trying to bury its past and move up in the world.
