Dell employees say the company is snapping up design talent as it hustles to crank out fresh PC and notebook designs, and the Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Dell is trying to sell its factories as well.

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If this is your hobby, you can turn it into a business by snapping up bargain items and reselling them.

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He took care of that himself, ending it by scooping up the puck by the boards, skating in on Ellis and snapping it toward the far side.

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Before we realized how mild it was, people were desperately snapping up stores of Tamiflu, an anti-viral medicine that only barely helps to treat the flu.

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Then, just as the full impact of the downturn was being felt, it went on a buying spree, snapping up distressed contractors at bargain-basement prices.

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It was only when optimistic Turks started snapping up imports that investors began to doubt that foreign capital inflows would be sufficient to fund both spendthrift consumers and the perennially penurious government.

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Main candidates are said to include both Motorola and Nokia, but Moto already seems to be doing just fine with the Q, and to be honest, it's hard to imagine Nokia snapping up a company that puts out phones running on Windows Mobile.

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It is a bad reason because the good folks that are snapping up the bonds at their current derisory yield are not being rewarded for the risks they are taking.

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