And yet Taylor, who at 5ft 11in nearly ended up ditching hockey for basketball, has endured a decade-long slog to reach that point - as has her father.
The aching question for most investors is whether the Euro-zone finance ministers will ever reach a long-standing compromise to achieve Greek debt sustainability?
The plan is to enable long-haul truckers to reach every major city on natural gas alone.
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The current chaos and the need to redefine Railtrack's role make it almost impossible to reach long-term franchise agreements.
At the time, the Blair government did little to discourage the widespread assumption that this meant long-range weapons could reach British targets, such as the military base on Cyprus.
Mr Buffett liked Iscar's steady long-term growth, its international reach, its investment in people and its close-knit, no-nonsense management style.
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It can take as long as nine days for a report to reach the agency--plenty long enough for a terrorist to pack up and disappear.
Civil-liberty advocates have long expressed concerns about law-enforcement expanding its reach through technology, particularly in retaining information on citizens who haven't committed a crime.
"We hope that at some point we'll be able to reach a long-term agreement with him, but we're just not there right now, " Mara said.
Finally, try not to make extreme changes that would negatively impact your ability to reach your long- term goals if you end up too pessimistic.
Unclassified estimates suggest that, by the turn of the century, many of these may be capable of fielding long-range missiles able to reach the United States.
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But whereas Nokia may yet claw its way back above a 30% market share, sceptics such as Mr Wood doubt that it will ever reach its long-term goal of 40%.
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Japan is on track to meet its own medium-term target of halving the primary deficit by FY2015 from its FY2010 level, but more action is needed to reach its long-term target to reduce its debt-to-GDP ratio from FY2021 onwards.
SEOUL, South Korea President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea failed to reach an agreement Thursday on a long-awaited free-trade agreement, and said they had decided instead to give their negotiators more time to work out differences, which revolved around Korean imports of American autos and beef.
North Korea, meanwhile, is believed to be preparing to test a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the United States.
For years, teams in markets large and small have tried to save money by signing their young stars to long-term deals well before they reach free agency.
Secondly, Halifax has extended its reach in the long-term savings market by acquiring the sales force and unit-linked business of Equitable Life, the troubled mutual life insurer.
NGFWs such as those offered by Check Point, Dell SonicWALL, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks and others are extremely high-performance, turnkey appliances intended to stop threats before they reach a computer network and long before the anti-virus software on the individual computer even gets triggered.
"The remedial work gives the council time to reach the best possible long-term decision for all concerned, " a council statement said.
It can be done, so it would require finishing the work that Senators McConnell and Reid started as they tried to reach a year-long agreement.
It is useful to have an American to blame when you are explaining to your own people why sacred and long-held goals are suddenly beyond your reach.
One tiger shark they caught turned out to have a hook already lodged deep in its stomach, so they used a long pole called a de-hooker to reach inside and remove it, returning the shark to the ocean healthier than it had arrived.
Both metals saw a drop in their net-long positions, but the method to reach that result was different.
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"It has been a long-time dream for all optical researchers to reach the terabit per second mark, " says Kuwahara Hideo, one of the 20 researchers at the Fujitsu lab.
Then, I got to sit back and listen to them all brainstorm and debate until I had some long-term goals, structure for how to reach those goals and what I wanted most of all, a to-do list.
Chris Humphrey out-paced Steven Smith to reach a long ball and smashed a shot past Reds goalkeeper Jamie Langfield.
Harmison was still out of sorts and began with a mixed bag of decent-length deliveries and poorly directed long-hops, one of which Ganga cut to reach 2, 000 runs in Test cricket.
As al-Assad has lost some ground in the far north, he has tried to maintain the reach of his firepower by launching long-range Scud missiles at towns near Turkey's border.
After years of waiting and hundreds of Engadget posts, the much-anticipated but seemingly just-out-of-reach high definition optical disc technology known as Blu-ray has finally, at long last, been given an official launch date by Sony.
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