• Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ), with a smaller, more spread-out store base, has an easier time growing same-store sales, he notes.

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  • Croquet comes as many institutions struggle with large, spread-out teams.

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  • Factor in average miles logged per year highest in states with spread-out populations, such as Oklahoma, Montana and New Mexico and it's clear that pump prices are only one part of the equation.

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  • The results of these policies convenient automobile access to the heart of the city, plentiful parking, inflated rents in the city compared to the suburbs, spread-out neighborhoods that are hard to traverse on foot creates the illusion that people are freely choosing a suburban, auto-oriented lifestyle.

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  • We probably are going to end this year's big bowls--they are now spread out to Jan. 4 in order to maximize TV revenue--without knowing who No. 1 is!

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  • Originally laid out by Emperor Yongle between 1406 and 1420 with the help of a mere million labourers, the complex is so vast - 800 buildings with 9, 000 rooms spread out over 720, 000 sq metres - that a full-time restoration squad is continuously repainting and repairing.

    BBC: Beijing's once Forbidden City

  • Each would cost about a hundred million dollars a two-trillion-dollar investment spread out over three decades.

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  • The radiation just spread out into space - where it still is and can be detected as weak waves of radio frequency.

    BBC: Pictures of the early Universe

  • This is our hope for all of you -- to just spread out around the country and replicate what they have done.

    WHITEHOUSE: First Lady Michelle Obama at ��Chefs Move to Schools�� Event

  • Mr Bafilemba points to parts of a laptop, a mobile phone and a wi-fi router spread out on a table in front of him.

    BBC: DR Congo mining fights to revive reputation

  • Most of the volume in FedEx options was generated by one strategist, who initiated a three-legged bearish spread straight out of the gate this morning.

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  • It's a two-character mystery spread out over 85 minutes of real time in which both characters slowly drop their pretenses and reveal their common hurt.

    WSJ: Review: Rajiv Joseph's 'The North Pool' engrossing

  • Ulster arrived at the Stoop only 45 minutes before the start because of heavy traffic but they took an early lead when Nagusa finished off after the ball was spread wide from a line-out.

    BBC: Harlequins 42-21 Ulster

  • Over the past two years advertising-as-auction has spread out beyond keywords to display advertising, video and mobile making for a far more complex advertising environment where ads are auctioned across these multiple platforms.

    FORBES: Ditching the TV Ad and Taking the Google Road to Brand Promotion

  • We arrived at another of the camps - no more than a few old sacks and tarpaulins spread out along the road opposite the mine entrance - and were immediately surrounded by farmers, who until a year ago, they said, would never have dared to speak to a foreigner about their problems.

    BBC: Spirit of defiance at Burma's Monywa mine

  • It was the rapid unrecorded movement of livestock which caused foot-and-mouth disease to spread out of control.

    BBC: Foot and mouth rules set to be eased

  • Policymakers have dropped hints that should one country's financing troubles spread to another, a bail-out plan is in place.

    ECONOMIST: The gains outweigh the losses

  • Several iPads sit atop kiosks, spread out across the sun-drenched white room.

    ENGADGET: Re-Reading Rainbow: an interview with LeVar Burton

  • The attacks appeared to be spread out over a 10-mile (16 km) range with bombs falling every 15 to 20 minutes over a two-hour period.

    CNN: New attacks on Kandahar

  • One reason is that pilots start from scratch, so some costs that would normally be spread out over 22 episodes--like building sets--get condensed into one show.

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  • Because spring break tends to spread out over a four- to six-week period in March and April, Ms. Banas says there are still deals to be found.

    WSJ: How (and When) to Snag Cheap Airfares

  • The armies with the exception of the Congolese government's are small, none of them over 20, 000 strong, and they are spread out over a sparsely-populated area the size of Western Europe, much of it covered in jungle.

    ECONOMIST: In Congo, war gets serious

  • "The biggest problem is that the worst-hit spots are spread out in the mountains and it is very hard for rescuers to get the injured people out, " said Zhou Shaohua, chief surgeon at the People's Hospital of Lushan.

    BBC: China quake: Rescue teams blast roads amid aftershocks

  • And while that might not sound like a lot, remember that those votes are spread out across an entire state -- what that looks like across hundreds of cities and thousands of precincts.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the First Lady at a Campaign Event

  • Eight19, a start-up spun out of Cambridge University, has a similar model in which small payments, like those used to buy kerosene, allow the purchase of a solar-lighting system to be spread out.

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  • People in many U.S. communities cannot walk even if they wanted to because workplaces are too far apart to permit walking, and too spread out to make public transportation--which often requires walking at least to and from bus or train stops--practical.

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  • In injury time the impressive Papadopoulos' shot was brilliantly kept out one-handed by Warner and the keeper did well to spread his body to keep out Taylor's follow up.

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  • Buy now and spread out your lease over three 10-month periods, with only 30% of your total obligation due in 2012.

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  • "There's a call out there to spread that information -- podcasting is one of the easiest ways to do it, " he told CNN.

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  • An electric barrier in a shipping canal near Chicago is meant to keep them from migrating into Lake Michigan, where scientists say they eventually could spread to the other Great Lakes and out-compete native fish for food.

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