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Already, cyberspace brokerages like E*TRADE and e.Schwab are filching millions of dollars in business from land-based icons like Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney by using the Web's data-processing efficiencies to cut pricing to the bone.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I have been told," continued the young man, "that some of the neighboring proprietors have put their ploughs in these estates of mine, and that, little by little, they are filching them from me.

From Dona Perfecta by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)