Word: snap
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Nonetheless, Fisher readily admits that Kodak botched the launch last year of its 24-mm Advantix camera (price range: $50 to $250), the company's other major new high-tech consumer product. Kodak figured that shoppers would snap up a camera that loaded film in snafu-proof cassettes and produced high-quality photos that could be captured on film, filed easily and transferred to computers. But the launch, estimated to have cost $100 million, faltered for a lack of sufficient cameras in stores and a shortage of processors equipped with gear to develop the images. Now, for a fresh...
...Lamelle, planner time-travel is a snap-she keeps a collection not only of old planners but also journals...
Then Murphy pulled one out of his trick-play book. Facing a third and 8 from the 32, Linden lined up in the shotgun formation with four wideouts set. With Columbia's defense expecting a pass, Linden took the snap and darted up the middle on a draw play, gaining 19 yards...
...withering away--though not entirely. While telephone records show that not one of them called emergency services, one photographer apparently tried but dialed a wrong number. He did not, however, bother to try again. Two paparazzi are singled out as interfering with and abusing police while continuing to snap the death scene...
...curb paparazzi exploits, such as requiring photographers to maintain a certain distance from their subjects. Such laws, however, might have a tough time passing constitutional muster because of the threat they pose to freedom of the press. (Not to mention the freedom of any grandmother at Disney World to snap pictures of a famous person who passes by.) Legal experts point out, moreover, that most abuses can be dealt with by current criminal laws (against trespassing and assault, for example) or by civil lawsuits, as Jacqueline Onassis brought when she won injunctions against photographer Ron Galella...