Word: snappingly
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...agreed-upon date. When suspect wares - like supposed organ sales - slip unseen into the massive mElange, it isn't eBay staffers who spot them first - it's the auctioneers, vigilantly policing their own neighborhood. More controversially, veteran buyers employ special software that helps them jump in and snap up items in the last seconds of an auction. But mostly the instinctive acquisitiveness of the denizens forms the kind of lasting bonds that are too often lacking in off-line society. They meet and swap tips in the chat rooms, they build friendships over sales, they sometimes even wed. Spend...
...mystery. At first I thought it was Greenspan, but he didn't really say anything to seriously affect sentiment. It looks like one of those snap-backs, when the world realizes all at once that things are looking cheap...
...Chirac, meanwhile, was rubbing his hands in glee over his suddenly improved prospects. Ever since he unwisely called - and lost - a snap parliamentary election in 1997, he has been a deeply wounded leader, forced to share power with Jospin and shorn of his image as a master strategist. As a result, many analysts were ready to write off Chirac's re-election chances. But the conservatives' unexpectedly strong showing last week points to a real horse race in the 2002 contests...
...that Microsoft is sniffing for deals in China's online market. AOL Time Warner, which publishes TIME, is said to be the furthest along. Sources say it has held intense negotiations with Beijing's politically well-connected Legend Computer about forming a joint venture that would then snap up Netease. Rumors link Microsoft with Sina. (Spokesmen for Microsoft and AOL deny there are any deals in the works.) Amid all the jockeying, Yahoo!'s plans seem the murkiest. International expansion may no longer be a major priority: many of Yahoo!'s most senior international executives have resigned, among them Savio...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...