Word: snapping
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Another debate-related observation of note: During and after the first presidential and vice-presidential debates, Kerry-Edwards supporters were instructed by e-mail to vote early and often in the online snap polls. The idea was that actual substance aside, there would be media buzz surrounding any statistical figures that showed a clear trend. The effort has been a phenomenal success, by some measure at least—the results in CNN’s poll after the last debate last Friday night had Kerry ahead 74-23 (with 3 percent saying it had been a draw), despite statistically...
...consumers at the right time. When it works, fashion phenomena are born, as in 1996, when the stylist for pop-music sensation Namie Amuro picked up some miniskirts, white platform boots and long coats in Maru Kyu's boutiques. Before long, Amuro's devotees were flocking to 109 to snap up the signature totems of what became known as the Amuler Boom...
...defense was calm and disciplined, waiting for one of the two Leopard quarterbacks to make a mistake. While the play-action fooled occasionally, for the most part a trio of white Harvard jerseys trailed the Lafayette quarterback from snap to harried pass to turf. Odds were that harried pass was going to eventually land in the arms of a Crimson defender. And three times during the game, that’s exactly what happened...
...spiritual epiphany. I had planned our trip from Boston, preparing for an exotic land of kimonos and haikus; my brother packed his bags in Taiwan, thinking of schoolgirl uniforms and manga comics. Isaac won. As Last Samurai morphed into Lolita, even I became an accomplice. The best way to snap pictures of unsuspecting females is to position your frumpy sister in front of them. Schoolgirls on bikes, young mothers at the mall, Shinto priestesses on festival barges…and the sister can be erased with Photoshop?...
BUSH IS PRAISED FOR BEING BRAVE AND decisive for the actions he took after the attacks of 9/11, but why, when his bravery and snap decisions based on trumped-up evidence have proved disastrously wrong and damaging? Neither the U.S., in its long-term interests, nor the world can afford another four years of Bush and his unilateralism...