Smith picked up a second technical to get ejected before the period expired, and the Pacers hit the 100-point mark before eventually building a staggering lead that got as large as 39.

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And the dismal results were exactly what economists predicted: In the months before the credit expired, buyers scrambled to get a deal from Uncle Sam.

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Americans can use an expired passport or a birth certificate to get onto the Caribbean island of Barbados.

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And everybody, I think, as the President said, in the room agreed that this was an issue that we needed to get finished by the end of the year, before the tax cuts expired.

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While the impressive numbers are in large part due to the flood of buyers last August who wanted to get in on the "cash for clunkers" stimulus program before it expired, there is still enough evidence of quarter to quarter growth in sales for the companies to assuage investors' earlier fears for American auto makers.

FORBES

They say my enlistment's expired and I, I'm not sticking around for anymore - so they get a bunch of new soldiers in there.

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Ranbaxy, a Japanese-owned drugmaker, struggled to get regulators' approval for its generic version of Lipitor, and only won it on the day the patent expired.

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