Word: snappingly
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...outsider, attacking your opponents may seem like a natural impulse in politicians, born of the fiery passion or snap judgment of the candidate. In truth, the choice of words in each attack is heavily considered, vetted and frequently poll-tested. While "going negative" is a often a highly effective tactic, voters generally claim to dislike candidates who resort to such tactics. So hitting the right tone you want at the right time takes a fair amount of stealth and nuance...
...just dialed random numbers looking for someone to talk to. “It was his voice that really freaked me out,” she said. “He sounded like he was crying, suicidal, and it sounded like the voice of someone who was about to snap,” she added. —Staff writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...
...those divisions have healed and Labour looks unbeatable. That has fueled speculation that Brown might call a snap election as early as next month. Insiders say a decision has not yet been made and point out that an election isn't due until 2010. But there's a clear temptation to secure a new five-year term before global financial turmoil can do too much damage to Britain's economy, and while Conservatives and Liberal Democrats flounder. Brown has wrong-footed his opponents who expected him to move Labour to the left. Instead he has co-opted advisers from across...
...right. "This technique was first proposed back in 1978," says Craig Mackay, of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, the Lucky Camera's lead scientist, "and we first tried it in 1985." Back then, though, detectors were very slow; it took 10 seconds to snap each exposure, and it took all night on a supercomputer to make one usable image. "Now," says Mackay, "we can make images in real time...
...made the Hubble such a good idea. And it's why a recent announcement by Cambridge University and Caltech made scientists take notice. By wedding an innovative electronic light detector to the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar in California--until 1990, the world's largest--astronomers were able to snap at least one space photo that was literally twice as sharp as a comparable Hubble image and, they bragged, 50,000 times cheaper...