But this week the market rallied sharply, the Dow up 3.2% for the week, reflecting mounting confidence that politicians are coming to their senses and will succeed in hammering out a compromise that will either resolve the fiscal cliff threat, or more probably succeed in kicking it down the road to next summer.
For the high-profile Americans, the race was more of a brisk workout on the long road to the London Olympics this summer.
Mr Jones said he was pledging to get "on the road" during the summer to meet public sector staff and the public.
Droitwich Amateur Boxing Club hopes to relocate its 200 members to the new gym close to its current Kidderminster Road home by the end of the summer.
By the way if that happens, although it would a positive for a few months, down the road the remnants could provide the catalyst for the seasonal pattern to continue next summer.
Get lost on the roads that wind their way up and down the hills of the Black Forest, where the summer sun filters through the canopy of trees to dapple the road in front of you.
In the winter, it is possible to drive the hundred and fifty miles from Fort McMurray to the lake on an ice road. (Because of rising temperatures, the number of days that the road is passable has been steadily shrinking.) In the summer, the only way to make the trip is by boat or by prop plane.
Before leaving the warmth of the Seamen's Victoria Hall on Harbour Road, rangers John Orr and Mairi Nicolson warned that the miserable summer appears to have impacted on bat numbers.
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Stephen Schwartz's latest book, The Other Islam: Sufism And the Road to Global Harmony, will be published by Doubleday this summer.
Inventories normally dip in summer, when drivers take to the road, pushing up demand for petrol, and in winter, when demand for heating oil surges.
That captures General Motors' new corporate advertising campaign, coming this summer, which internally has been dubbed the "road to redemption"campaign.
But he said the "middle-of-the-road audience" may have to choose between Holland and Cullum and alternative attractions at Summer Pops.
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Those looking to take a road trip this summer will find great deals on the quintessential family vehicle, the Dodge Grand Caravan minivan.
From SUVs to pick-up trucks, the bargains abound just in time for summer road trips.
Israeli settlement-building would make a viable Palestinian state ever harder to achieve: this summer Israel, ignoring its own road-map obligations, announced plans to increase the number of settlers in the Jordan Valley, in the east of the West Bank, by 50% in one year.
Raitt was soon opening for them on the road college was a distant memory and in 1971 she headed out to a studio at an empty summer camp in Minnesota to record her first album, the self-titled Bonnie Raitt.
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