Previously, Romans was the anchor of CNNfn's "Street Sweep, " broadcasting from the New York Stock Exchange.

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Determined to run at least a little of the course, I started as I knew I wouldn't be able to go on for long, jogging until the crowd thinned out and I could take up the brisk walking pace I hoped would get me back to the stadium before the street cleaners moved in to sweep the course.

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Look, he says, at the town halls of Leeds and Manchester, or the sweep of Newcastle's Grey Street and Edinburgh's Princes Street.

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"I would like to sweep that into the past, " said Mr. Gross, who last year told The Wall Street Journal that he lost sleep over the failed strategy.

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