During one four-play stretch, he hit tight end Chris Gragg in stride 20 yards up the right hash mark.

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Whether health care can really be enhanced, or even maintained, when money will be so tight seems a stretch.

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He successfully rode out a stretch of government-imposed tight controls on real estate lending in China with a double-digit increase in its Hong Kong shares in the past year.

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"I don't think it's a stretch to say we played a little bit tight early on, " Stricklin said.

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In short, the Spurs organization has been nothing but classy in recent memory, they were stuck with an unnecessarily harsh stretch of road games jam packed into a tight window, and their coach made a decision to protect the long-term health and well-being of his players.

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