With Vicksburg in Union hands, the North could control the whole length of the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

It describes a rectangle with a length about one and one-half times its width.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

That's an excellent question, especially looking into factors that affect the return-generating process in the stock market-in other words, factors that affect the stock prices in a conventional sense: Market liquidity, length of the daily fasting period, especially contrasting summer months with winter months when Ramadan coincides with one versus the other, with the length of day being really longer during summer months.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05