Word: far-flung
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...that may not be Turner's strong suit. And if the stock price continues to go up, he may find his far-flung ranches beckoning. However, if the stock price languishes and Turner feels the urge to get into the day-to-day management of the company, he could end up breaking some of the executive furniture...
...physicians prescribe to kill them. They also acquire the disturbing ability to stimulate the formation of nutrient-bearing blood vessels, thus spurring their own growth. Even if malignant cells grow rather slowly, they grow inexorably, eventually forming a deadly mass that invades surrounding tissue and spreads, or metastasizes, to far-flung locations...
Soccer, along with tennis and basketball, offers the kind of global sports market that PVI is hoping to tap. What the firm's technology does best is simultaneously display different ads in different far-flung locations. For now it is sticking with static images, but according to PVI vice president Sam McCleery, moving pictures and 3-D animations are next...
...that over the past two months a few hundred people in the U.S. and Canada have been stricken with a new and mysterious intestinal infection. So far, no deaths have been reported, although a few people have been hospitalized for severe dehydration. But what baffles the experts is how a rare illness that was once seen only in places like Peru and Nepal has managed to spread so quickly in such far-flung cities as New York, Houston, Palm Beach, Florida, and Toronto...
That a troupe most New Yorkers have never heard of should sell out a 5,854-seat house is not as surprising as it may seem. Riverdance depends on far-flung Irish communities for both its personnel (only 30 of the troupe are native-born Irish) and its core audience. The traditional art that Riverdance draws on still flourishes around the world, mostly through contests--not unlike Welsh singing competitions...