Word: stretch
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...government defines poverty (presently, it's anything under $22,000 for a family of four), it does not define what it means to be middle class. The U.S. Census Bureau says the median income in the U.S. is about $51,000 a year, but how far does the "middle" stretch? According to a 2008 Pew Research Center survey, half of Americans self-identify as middle class. (See pictures of Americans at home...
...could, if you really wanted to stretch it, go back to the 1864 advent of the national banking system and the first federal bank regulator, the Comptroller of the Currency. Or even the chartering in 1791 of the partly government-owned Bank of the United States--Alexander Hamilton's baby, which died in 1811, seven years after...
...Crimson is led offensively by Vaillancourt, who is averaging 2.31 points per game in the past 13 contests and was named Ivy League Player of the Year yesterday. The defense, lead by goaltender Kessler, has allowed only 1.31 goals per game over the same stretch...
Nowhere does it stretch further than in the Casco Viejo, Panama City's quaint, compact, colonial-era Old Town. Dating from the early-16th century and surrounded on three sides by the Pacific, the Casco - as it is affectionately known by locals - was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 and served as the backdrop for much of the action in the latest James Bond film Quantum of Solace. The Casco's appeal is clear: grand cathedrals, fountain-filled plazas, timeworn cobblestone streets, even a bullet-scarred Presidential palace, which was attacked during the 1989 U.S. invasion...
...Vaillancourt’s rebounded as well, with 30 of her team-leading 47 points coming in that stretch. Kessler’s only four shutouts on the season have been in the last 12 games. Harvard’s two top offensive lines are firing on all cylinders, and special teams have been a strength...