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Tell yourself you'll do 20 push-ups in the next five minutes (a specific stretch goal) vs. five push-ups (non-stretch) or the vague idea that you'll do as many as you can.

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Those in need of a replacement for Coco Crisp would do well to add Murphy for the stretch run.

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In fact, it would have been no great stretch to do so given that one of the violators was a federal agency, the Border Patrol.

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To make the early assessment and development even more effective, the second thing you can do is to challenge each of your managers early on with a short-term stretch assignment.

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To be clear, I do not know of any specific hedge fund that has implemented this strategy, but it is not a wild stretch to fathom that sophisticated investment firms can use small, illiquid derivatives markets (such as CDS on Greek, Italian or Spanish bonds) to potentially impair the broader global equity markets.

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Transatlantic tales of overflowing lagoons depositing industrial quantities of waste into local rivers and waterways do little to inspire confidence (one spill in 2005 killed 375, 000 fish and contaminated a 20-mile stretch of a river in New York state).

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