Word: snappingly
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...doorstep. McCain urges that the U.S. respond by doing whatever it can to speed Ukraine's accession to membership in NATO. But Ukrainian democracy has a way of muddying the picture. On Wednesday, President Viktor Yushchenko, a strong U.S. ally and champion of NATO membership, called a snap parliamentary election, following the collapse of his ruling coalition last month. Questions of the country's future relationship with Russia and the West remain contested in Ukraine's political maneuvering, but it was not manipulation on the part of Moscow that brought down the Yushchenko government. The immediate threat comes from Yushchenko...
...immediate challenge for Tymoshenko will be to beat out the Party of the Regions in the race for control of parliament. But such are the divisions among the Ukrainian electorate that no clear winner is likely to emerge from the snap election, and the key question will be, Which two of the three major parties will end up forming a coalition? Tymoshenko cooperated with the Party of the Regions to further eclipse Yushchenko's presidential prerogatives last month and may yet do so again - but the shape of the next government will be settled as much at the polls...
...reader allows you to bypass password protection and log in to the laptop, or even to websites, with a thumb swipe. And a nifty built-in business-card scanner lets you line up a card along the front edge of the machine, tilt the laptop's screen down and snap a picture of it; included with the laptop is software called Presto! BizCard that imports the text of the business card into your contacts file. There's also a Gobi chipset that allows you to connect to high-speed cellular networks, available by subscription in the U.S. from the likes...
...Arab waterway--the convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers--where seven months ago Basra residents feared kidnappings and abuse, young people and families now crowd outdoor cafés and recreational boat decks late into the evening. Children jostle one another at popcorn and juice vendors, and photographers snap customers' portraits next to an outdoor display of fake flowers and stuffed animals...
...Sometimes it’s a little bit disbelief. You know you want to make sure it didn’t cross the goal line. You keep looking, was there a flag? You want to believe it all, I mean it wasn’t until the last snap [that I believed].”Harvard had just completed a 15-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in a 3-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Liam O’Hagan to an open Matt Luft in the back of the endzone. O’Hagan’s entrance...