1.   As the deadline approaches and the politicians scurry to buy time, the HMOs are engaging in a flurry of gamesmanship.

2.   At UH, for instance, an American Express representative was posted inside the University Bookstore as students scurried to buy books for classes.

3.   Investors who had bet on a gold price decline scurried to buy the metal back, while producers bought to limit their hedging losses.

4.   This would all be a comic opera except that communities around the world must scurry to buy favor with the IOC.

5.   The game was almost an afterthought as fans scurried to buy extra programs and final-game souvenirs.