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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"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And, again, I think it speaks to part of our efforts to promote democracy and how they reach out to both existing, long-established partners, like the UK, but also emerging democracies, like Indonesia and Brazil and the Philippines, that have a lot to offer in terms of providing a model for other countries that are moving towards democracy.
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Gerard Pique over-hit a long pass out of defence - which the out-of-sorts Torres was never likely to reach - but Chile goalkeeper and captain Claudio Bravo foolishly raced out of his penalty area to clear unsuccessfully into the path of Villa.
He had a long reach, great quickness, tenacity and confidence -- the perfect combination of a young Muhammad Ali.
The looming sequester, which would slash spending across the government, was created by both parties, after the failure of the Grand Bargain, in 2011, as a purposely odious policy, in order to force the two sides to reach a more rational plan to reduce long-term deficits.
Its long-promised TV show, Ebay Today, has yet to reach the air.
The former France international threaded his pass into the box for Wright-Phillips, who slid his shot past the long reach of Pantilimon.
Over the weekend, there were flight delays, problems at check-in kiosks, airport lines and long wait times to reach reservations agents on the phone.
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