Heading outside, Jewett noticed surging flames as well as billowing black smoke.

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Meanwhile, technology stocks on the Nasdaq have been surging since springtime as well.

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One pivotal turn in the 1996 campaign occurred in a matter of a few days in New Hampshire, when Bob Dole knocked down a surging Alexander with some well-timed TV spots.

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As India, China and other emerging economies become wealthier and adopt Western diets, the diabetes rate is surging in those places as well.

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Intel should see increased technology spending in an economic recovery, particularly with increased demand from cloud computing and virtualization, as well as from surging data and network traffic.

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But leading Chinese portal Sina.com, which went public when Nasdaq was in a free fall, has held up pretty well, at one point even surging beyond 100% of its IPO price before correcting a bit.

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It also looks at the surging countries of China, India and Russia as well as established centers such as France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland.

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Even after surging to new highs this week, buyers can still catch more upside potential in eBay ( EBAY), as well as a red-hot railroad stock that looks to be rolling its way onto the new high list.

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