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Even other hungry crocodiles do not seem to think twice about snapping up a baby or two for a meal.

Shanghai specifically would be boosted by wealthy investors in other parts of the country increasingly snapping up property there, he said.

Though the financial crisis offers opportunities for snapping up companies cheaply, "price is not the only consideration" .

Mr. Paulson has been snapping up bargain-priced debt of Lehman and is now one of its biggest creditors.

Yahoo took place in this race by snapping up upcoming. org for a very low fee.

If these analysts are right, you might expect investors to be snapping up the stockmarket bargains that distressed selling has created.

And Mittal is not the only Indian business leader snapping up foreign companies.

Then again , Nationwide has spent much of the crisis snapping up other mutuals that have got into trouble , so the model is not infallible .

The business: If you thought military procurement was all about snapping up hardware like guns and tanks, think again.

Chinese companies have been on a buying spree, snapping up mineral and hydrocarbons resources around the world.

New York-based Magnolia Pictures were clearly impressed, snapping up the distribution license even before seeing the finished movie.

TI went on a shopping spree during the recession, snapping up chip factories from manufacturers that had fallen on hard times.

Japanese companies should be snapping up acquisitions all over the world.

Customers are snapping up its trendy pants and tops to wear to class and , increasingly, to the supermarket or out to dinner.

The shot missed Jack, who was already rolling away, snapping up the Glock before diving behind the cover of upended seats.

Despite fearing for the economy and their jobs, residents of Buenos Aires are still snapping up the latest fad.

Snapping up some of this paper would boost its balance sheet while helping to stabilise European bond markets.

In New York City, foreign governments and agencies are on a buying spree, snapping up multimillion-dollar Manhattan properties.

Many businesses have been snapping up dollars as they lose faith in the Vietnamese currency.

EU officials have grown alarmed at the prospect of state-controlled Chinese companies snapping up strategic European industries.

Dell's moves come as peers start taking advantage of the recession by snapping up tech companies at reduced prices.

Intel's purchase also reflects another growing trend: seeking higher margins, hardware companies are snapping up software companies.

Western visitors to Zimbabwe are snapping up Zimbabwe bank notes, most notably the one hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, as a souvenir.

Noble rushed in, snapping up crushers in the city of Chongqing; Shandong and Guangxi provinces; and Nantong in Jiangsu province.

China's rich are snapping up properties all around the world, according to a feature in today's WSJ.

Investors snapping up 30-year Treasury bonds paying less than 5 percent are betting that the Fed will keep these inflation risks in check.

American collectors of Asian art are now snapping up Cuban contemporary works and Cuban art galleries are also springing up.

Beijing has also extracted substantial value from side deals, snapping up strategic assets at bargain basement prices.

This morning, there was such a panicky flight to 'quality' that investors were snapping up 10-year Treasury notes yielding a whopping 3. 1%.

Japanese titans of industry and finance shook American confidence by snapping up U. S. golf courses and trophy office buildings.

Chinese companies, particularly in construction, are also snapping up contracts in the region.

Online customers have been snapping up the firm's core product: $4, 000 cocktail dresses.

As Western officials grow restive, some money-losing SOEs are snapping up profitable competitors.

In September, an economist claimed on television that Chinese investors are snapping up homes in east London.

Many women are snapping up her choices of shoes and eyeglasses and blogging about which brand of lipstick she wears.

That process has continued, particularly the snapping up of privatised land in the former Soviet Union.

Builders are snapping up scraps of empty land near the city's centre.

Overseas, U. S. and other investors are snapping up tens of millions of hectares of farmland in Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe.

That is still be a fraction of the $450bn in private equity funds allocated to snapping up companies in the US.

That investors are not snapping up Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, therefore, is worrying.

The deals in 2011 will in part be driven by Japan's rivalry with China and India, which have been snapping up prime assets.

At the same time, large companies are snapping up Web businesses before these startups ever see a second or third round of funding.

Mainlanders are snapping up central London residences.

Reports of Chinese snapping up Japan's mountains and forests have struck a raw nerve, however.

In fact, many other young Chinese women are snapping up high-performance sports cars.

Local agents said speculators from developing countries including India were making inquiries about snapping up a few Michigan properties.

Oracle, which has been snapping up smaller software companies for several years, agreed to pay $9. 50 a share for Sun.

Consumers are snapping up laptops.

"Land grabbers" are snapping up land abroad to use for food production.

This is not just about snapping up oilfields and copper mines on the cheap, as China has been doing all decade.

The first step towards snapping up an internship at Dianping. com is to spend 10 minutes taking a quiz about the website.

In China, the world's biggest car market, legions of newly rich consumers are snapping up fancy sedans at a dizzying pace.

A few consumers are snapping up the sharp sets in Hong Kong, even though there's no high definition programming.

China, which is snapping up resources, is 70 per cent self-sufficient in energy because of its coal deposits.

Indonesia's central bank, for example, has stopped selling three-month notes, which yield-hungry foreigners were eagerly snapping up.

And it's not just the basics the Chinese are snapping up: China ranks as the third-largest consumer of luxury goods in the world.

Last year Mr Chiaty spotted an opportunity in Europe's property market, snapping up the 79 hotels of the Steigenberger chain.

That is partly because people have tightened their belts, but also because they are snapping up tablets and smartphones.