Word: snappingly
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...capital city, other pillars of the Thaksinomics miracle may be weakening as well. Aggressive lending policies by Thailand's state-owned banks, together with tax breaks to developers, have fueled a Bangkok real estate boom among Thai buyers. But some foreign investors who rushed into Thailand to snap up foreclosed properties after the 1997 crash are now selling, convinced that the market has topped. "Three years ago we had properties on our books that no one would touch," says a Bangkok-based real estate investor. "Now we are getting offers you wouldn't believe. It's a speculators' market...
...Cause if you do, your punch season might be pretty short-lived. Oh, snap...
Lomo ActionSampler 2.0 ($30 at lomography.com). Forget digital. This crazy camera uses good ol’ 45mm film. Four lenses snap in rapid succession to give you four different images on one frame. Cooler than you can imagine—and only...
...Crimson (4-0, 2-0 Ivy) defensive unit dictated the game’s tone from the first snap, limiting Cornell (1-3, 0-2) to fewer than three yards per play and allowing the Big Red inside the 20-yard line just twice en route to a cushy 27-0 victory, Harvard’s first shutout in Ithaca in 110 years...
...third path is suggested by Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: a snap election to create an interim parliament. "The candidates would run on national lists and be elected by proportional representation. The likely result would be a coalition government, which would then have three years to write a constitution and create a permanent government." The risks of such a scheme are obvious: radicals tend to do best in premature elections, and a large, continuing American military presence and real humanitarian and financial support from the U.N. would still be required. The advantage would be an elected...