Spring is here, the home stretch for many high school seniors making September college plans.
Many players see the outlook then for the home stretch of 2012 as a binary.
As tax season heads towards the home stretch, hundreds of thousands of taxpayer refunds have been delayed.
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The sector enters the home stretch of earnings season today and tomorrow as GlaxoSmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca report.
Also, the closer to the finish line the better, and the Clubhouse, not the grandstand, is along the home stretch.
Australian start-up Virtual Gaming Worlds is nearing the home stretch in development of a free-to-play MMO called Chumba World.
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And volume slumped during the home stretch in 2011 amid global economic concerns, but it is set to soar this year.
Weather allowing, the Plastiki will leave New Caledonia by this Friday to begin their home stretch journey to Australia's eastern coast.
In the home stretch, the Romney campaign pointed to a big jump in voter contacts this year over John McCain's 2008 effort.
In addition to polls not generally available to the public, Rove says the Republicans have a huge financial advantage in the home stretch.
The home stretch sends racers up an 11-foot hill and then down into the "Dutch mountains, " four moguls just before the finish line.
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We thought we had turned the tide, turned the corner, beaten the defensive rush and were headed upfield, striding into the home stretch.
There's a couple brief interview snippets with the actors and producers, but the home stretch of the two-minute video is a theatrical-style trailer.
Bullock, who presented the Best Actor award dressed in red Vera Wang, injected some much-needed levity into the flagging home stretch of the Oscars.
At the top of the home stretch, it became quickly apparent that Orb didn't have the same late burst he displayed in winning the Derby.
As baseball's off-season hits the home stretch, World Series hero Johnny Damon sits at home and waits to see where he'll be playing next season.
It was the wrapping around the present being presented to the country: the home stretch of the most intensely followed horse race in the country.
Both Brazil and China are likely coming to the home stretch of their tightening cycle, meaning an end to raising interest rates to cool demand for credit.
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.
Mitt Romney, whose presidential bid was briefly overshadowed by Sandy in the home stretch of the campaign, said he sees no fault in Mr. Christie's actions, now or last fall.
And is there any desire to show that the administration is getting out of the bailout business in an election, as we move to the home stretch of the election?
Earlier, Walker had started the 400m hurdles quietly but she was on Demus' shoulder at the bend before making her move on the home stretch to claim a comprehensive win.
And technology yielded the first major break: Police found photos and even a surveillance video of the two suspects toting backpacks -- each ostensibly loaded with a pressure-cooker bomb -- at the marathon's home stretch.
It is possible that some private equity managers are dragging their feet a bit, holding back on writing down illiquid holdings with the hope that markets will rebound in the home stretch of the year.
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Well-funded super PACs took on some ground game efforts for the Romney campaign, and polls conducted in the home stretch found voters in the most hotly contested battlegrounds felt they'd been only slightly more likely to hear from Obama's campaign than Romney's.
The former would mean Argo has to overcome 80 years of Oscar history to take Best Picture without even a nomination for Best Director, and the latter means Lincoln has to overcome a softening status amid a race that became highly competitive with strong challengers in the home stretch.
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And instead of devoting valuable home stretch resources to bringing guaranteed votes to the polls on Election Day, the campaign could instead focus on using those hard-core supporters as Election Day foot soldiers, employing the most personal and effective form of voter persuasion to bring less enthusiastic backers to the polls.
After meeting bigwigs including International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who said "Lord Bates is setting a fine example of what it means to live by the Olympic values every day, " and Pope Benedict XVI, who welcomed him with the observation "You've walked a long way, " Lord Bates is on the home stretch.
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The mayor was also hurt during the home stretch of the campaign when Ralston Purina, a giant food corporation, an nounced it was thinking of moving out of the city, and when the only public hospital in the region said it would close this summer because the city had failed to contribute its share of the budget.
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