41.   Brazilian stocks see-sawed through the week, ending higher Friday as investors snatched up shares of companies they saw as cheap relative to their expected earnings.

42.   But the largest concentration of people in this blessed place on the edge of Port Townsend is not on the beach soaking up sunshine or snatching up seashells.

43.   Carlson and others in the industry deny that companies are snatching up sites in hopes of leaving fewer for PCS.

44.   Children scamper inside the spacious and sunny second floor every afternoon eager to snatch up the latest books or spend time doing research on the Internet.

45.   Coke had earlier said its numbers would improve as it snatches up market share around the world.

46.   Confident that the economy can chug along enough to sustain earnings, investors snatched up economic bellwethers that fell at the end of last year.

47.   Connecticut stocks rose to a record as investors snatched up shares of Travelers Group Inc. amid optimism that lower interest rates will boost earnings of financial services companies.

48.   Consumers now snatch up the best-selling self-help books of Iyanla Vanzant, a Yoruba priestess.

49.   Companies wanting to do business on the Internet complained that all of the simple dot-com names had been snatched up long ago.

50.   Consumers are taking advantage of those low rates to snatch up new and used houses and keep construction and resales close to record levels.