The wildest stretch of U.S. shoreline south of Alaska is California's lost coast, a 25-mile-long burl of rock thrust into, and pounded by, the Pacific.
The European debt crisis has faded into the background a bit during the home stretch of the U.S. elections, but last week it came back into the headlines.
February may be a short month, but it was a pretty good stretch for the U.S. labor market and that helped Wall Street continue its winning ways Friday.
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Brenton Simons, president and chief executive of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, said renderings of family trees date at least to the 18th century in the U.S. and stretch back centuries before in other countries.
And really, such a proposition doesn't seem like a huge stretch -- after all, the Wii U is largely expected to be the only major piece of hardware shown off by the big three this year.
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First, however, those industrial giants will need to get past a nasty stretch with their most important export markets, the U.S., Europe and China.
So a U, where there's a bad stretch before a recovery, is more plausible.
Bush said the U.S. engagement in Iraq will stretch beyond his presidency, requiring military, financial and political support from Washington.
Conway remains bullish: He thinks the U.S. economy endured its worst stretch of the year between April and June, and will continue to be reasonably good.
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Despite the profitability problems, Stark said the U.S. business fueled overall growth in a stretch when Julius Baer's private banking side was underperforming.
To stretch a bit, one might even say that the success of U.S. finance has made the real, or goods, sectors less competitive internationally.
You may think that the argument is a bit of a stretch at this point, since treasuries are fully backed by the U.S. government and rated AAA. Corporate bonds carry no such endorsement, so in essence I am exchanging sovereign risk for some broader risks such as credit, business and market risks.
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Volkswagen and Audi have been most committed to diesel in the U.S. market, with Audi planning this year to stretch its Turbo Direct Injection clean-diesel option across most of its highest-volume models, and VW pushing to get diesel penetration of its Passat mid-sized sedan to around 25 percent.
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U. and the rest of the world is not much of a stretch.
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U.S. Department of Transportation data shows five people died in three separate stretch limo accidents in 2010, and 21 people died in another three stretch limo accidents in 2011.
Harmon's perspective is as a world-famous coach and instructor, a professional rival of Haney, and Woods's coach for more than 10 years, starting in 1993 before his first U.S. Amateur title, through eight major-championship wins and perhaps the greatest stretch of golf anyone has ever played.
It would be a stretch for ethanol to displace more than 10% of the 150 billion gallons of gasoline used annually in the U.S., says Jason Grumet, executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bipartisan, non-profit group.
By the way, a 20-mile stretch of the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York was determined to be the most congested traffic corridor in the U.S., taking 54 minutes to traverse at an average speed of just 13 mph, representing a whopping delay of 41 minutes.
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