Certainly, the US economy looked to be headed down and lots of other folks thought the same thing.

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Here are signs you could be headed down the same path.

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Mr. RANDALL: Now we just crossed the railroad track, and we are headed down into an area that used to be very festive on Saturday evenings.

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Ebullient and seemingly inexhaustible, with an intensity tempered by a ready laugh that can be heard from down the hall, the red-headed Quinn is the kind of person who can describe herself as a "pushy broad" and not make you wince.

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Given where nanotechnology is headed, it's not inconceivable that they can someday be shrunk down to flea size to power injectable sensors and miniature medical devices.

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But the doctors told me if I kept going down the path I was headed, I would likely not be around to watch them graduate from high school.

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Rumsfeld was joined by members of the congressionally-mandated Space Commission that he headed until December, when he stepped down because of his nomination to be defense secretary.

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After starting out with a rather frivolous lawsuit in the first place, and then moving on to greater heights when Shannon Derrik's mom turned down a free iPod nano delivered to their door, the debacle looks to be headed to the television via the Judge Judy show.

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