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But the Hurricanes sent A&M quarterback Marcel Reed to the ground seven times—including three occasions in the fourth quarter alone—allowing their offense to eke out a 10-3 victory.
Wall Street is betting that falling interest rates and strong corporate earnings will be enough to eke out yet one more year of stock-market gains.
November wasn’t exactly a great month for the U.S. stock market, although the S&P 500 did manage to eke out a small gain.
From MarketWatch
He said Cubans who have access to dollars from relatives abroad can eke by.
The Nasdaq Composite managed to eke out a 0.2% gain after being down as much as 0.6% earlier in the day.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
