Word: snappingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What made Bush snap remains even more of a mystery to her parents and friends. One, Jenn Oglesby, 14, spent almost every weekend shopping and watching videos with Bush. "She seemed really happy," says Oglesby, who spoke to Bush on the phone the night before the shooting. "We talked about school, but she didn't mention any problems." Before Bush excused herself for dinner, the two made plans to hang out over the weekend. Instead, as her friend sat in a juvenile-detention center charged with attempted homicide, Oglesby stopped by Bush's home last Friday night to console...
Unless you're outdoors in the midst of a cold snap, chances are you can't see your breath. And no one would ever ask you to drop a quarter in a tin box for the right to free this invisible spirit from your lungs. Yet last November, Murphy Oil Corp., based in El Dorado, Ark., voluntarily shelled out several hundred thousand dollars for the right to cough out carbon dioxide, the same stuff you exhaled three sentences...
...Even after the departure of the Trinamool Congress, Vajpayee's government retains a majority in parliament. It could theoretically fall if more coalition partners jump ship. But if that happens, the snap general election that is sure to follow would be fought on a single issue - corruption in government. The incumbents would be at a terrible disadvantage. Safer to stick together and hunker down, and hope no more shells land close to the trenches...
...amount of diplomacy, quiet or otherwise, can obscure Mugabe's determination to win the presidential election scheduled for early 2002. There is a belief in Harare that Mugabe is stepping up the pressure to secure urban support-by intimidation and force if necessary-in order to hold a snap election this year, possibly in July, that will put him in power for another six years. If that is the case, he should look elsewhere for his next birthday party. By then, even Victoria Falls may be closed...
...grow. Paul Kennedy, the Yale historian who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, advises those who fret about this to relax; he thinks the bonds can afford to stretch a little now that the Soviet Union has fallen, because we can be confident they would snap back in the face of a real threat. But Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, has just started a new group, Atlantic Partnership, precisely because he fears the alliance may suffer permanent damage from a rising tide of special-interest squabbles. Rudolf Scharping, the German Defense Minister, recently declared that...