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“But my association with the St Andrew’s club stretches back to the opening night, in January 1973, when Buchanan took the British lightweight title from Watt.

They are climbing steadily in the national rankings (they are sixth in both polls) and have been in the top 25 for nine straight weeks, which is the longest stretch of recognition the Hawks have achieved since the 1965-66 team was ranked for all 16 weeks of the season.

"We need a break, because it was a long stretch of games.

An edge down the stretch for Creighton, which has put together its longest winning streak in 28 years, could be its experience, with four fifth-year seniors on coach Dana Allman's roster, three of them starting.

A focus on the mundane gives the movie a credibility that is missing in standard dance dramas as the dancers (most of them played by real Joffrey members) gossip in dressing rooms, stretch their limbs in private, or, in skits performed at a holiday party, mock their superiors.

His lackluster performance against the Eagles started him on a four-game stretch in which his rating was 64. In the five games since the debacle on Thanksgiving Day in Detroit, Favre has amassed a rating of 109.7. The opposition was suspect in the four December victories but the Seattle Seahawks were primed Sunday in a wild-card game.

A string of long beaches stretches to the south; a picturesque lava-rock coast backed up against thick jungle lies to the north.

But the patio happens to be situated several hundred feet above a private nature reserve that stretches north for miles and is bordered to the west by the Pacific.

Playa Guiones, a long, white stretch of sand, lies to the south.

Everything in this pluralistic sampler of more than two dozen small works is a self-portrait, though some pieces stretch the definition.

It's hard not to be moved by Catharina's stretched-cat face as she screams: "Why don't you paint me?" In the middle of all this make-believe, she's saddled with that most horrible and fixed of roles: the desired but unloved wife.

Its empire of tribute-paying “allies” stretched across the Mediterranean, disciplined by a massive and well-trained navy.

Conservationists fear it will take years for wildlife to recover from the damage caused by a sea breach into a stretch of rare reedbeds.

Well, destroying the environment is a bit strong; they're taking a stretch of unused pavement and turning it into a fancier, more expensive stretch of unused pavement.

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