Word: snappingly
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...parliament only a year later following mass demonstrations in Bangkok calling for him to step down, triggered by the controversial sale of his family company Shin Corp. to a group led by Singapore's Temasek Holdings. Since then, Thai politics have descended into high farce, culminating in an April snap election boycotted by the opposition and later invalidated by the courts. The election commissioners who oversaw this debacle refused to resign until they were briefly thrown in jail. A fresh ballot has been scheduled for Oct. 15, but it may well have to be delayed while new commissioners are installed...
Khatami briefly addressed Iran’s nuclear program, saying that he believes that through negotiations Iran would sign the additional protocol allowing, among other things, snap inspections...
...clout in the party to assure her a top post in his government. Nicole El Karoui Math Professor Few postgraduate degrees have the cachet of one earned under her aegis at the Ecole Polytechnique or the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). Banks snap up her students, who have mastered the probability equations that hedge funds need to model portfolios. Anne Lauvergeon CEO, Areva Group A former Mitterrand acolyte, she negotiated the 2001 merger of state-owned firms to create the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants. Reappointed this summer for five more years, she vows...
...first win of the season. PENN 2, HARVARD 0 The Quakers (1-3, 1-0 Ivy) captured their first win of the season by limiting the Crimson to five shots. Penn scored at the 5:44 mark of the game, and then again eleven minutes from the buzzer to snap a five-game losing streak to Harvard. Harvard received a boost from the return from injury of sophomore goaltender Kelly Knoche. Knoche, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, made six saves after sitting out the first two games. MASSACHUSSETTS 4, HARVARD 1 The Crimson...
...elevator back up to the office. I had to wait and when I finally got in an elevator, there was this kid, maybe 19 or 20, with his backpack blocking the door. We must have waited about 20 seconds for this guy. I remember I was about to snap at him to move out of the way so that the doors could close, and just then the second plane hit. The elevator shook unbelievably. I thought we were going to into a free fall, but we didn't. Everybody ran out. There was so much dust. We merged back into...