Nintendo is going after a broader market and longtime fans are feeling dissed by callous wording.

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" The headline of David Hurwitz's grumpy Classics Today review speaks for all such folk: "Vivaldi Discomposed, or Maybe Just Dissed.

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Rather than being dissed as a taciturn intellectual, he can be respected as reticent, self-controlled Plainsman, a Gary Cooper, if you will.

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This in turn discourages investors, who until just the past few days (after a break in the yen fever) have dissed Japanese stocks.

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Other companies, including EMC, Hewlett Packard, SAS Institute and the outfits Lynch just dissed, are all in it too, to one degree or another.

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An even greater shock to the sensibilities of the insular, Manhattan-centric media, the report found that most of the movement from the Empire State was not from the much-dissed suburbia, but from that hip and cool paragon, New York City.

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But as public consumption of news and information migrates to mobile and social, PR pros no longer have to endure the indignity of getting dissed by a stressed out reporter or talent booker who paints all PR people as evil.

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Have we dissed a winner?

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