Prior to its public release, political party insiders used to hoard voter file information like feudal lords, selecting who could access the database and price gouging those lucky enough to have the money.
By 1920 the surrounding mines closed because the iron ore being gouged from them was not of a high enough quality.
A run-in with a huge asteroid is bad enough, as movies like Deep Impact have gouged into our consciousness.
If not for the corners' stability, this defense would get gouged because it doesn't have a four-man rush that's explosive enough to force big plays.
It is bad enough, people around here say, that their beloved Indiana countryside is being gouged by strip mines in a quest for coal.
But to most people, who generally don't have to deal with merchant accounts and interbank transfers and wire deadlines, who just use their credit and ATM cards and don't think about how much they're being gouged by fees and exchange rates, today's centralized financial systems are generally good enough.
Fans may not care that reporters have worked in a suffocating environment, but most ticket buyers would agree they've been gouged for everything but the air inside the renovated world's most famous arena without enough postseason reward.
The year 1955 isn't long enough ago to believe that the torture and lynching of a boy, eyes gouged out and his body thrown into a river, was the expected response to a wolf whistle.
If enough shares move every second, it is less likely that they will be gouged out of a nickel spread.
Based on how people actually use these connections and how much they are required to pay, we are being gouged: We are all paying too much for services that are both uncompetitive and second-class, and not enough Americans are being served adequately by reasonably priced, world-class services.
