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Example sentences for: run-up

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"A break-up of Microsoft would be highly controversial and politically contentious, especially in the run-up to a presidential election," the paper said.
This leads me to one conclusion: The vast, exciting run-up in the stock market, yanked along by the (here's a journalistic cliché ripe for the executing) "tech-heavy Nasdaq," may not have been irrational exuberance at all; it may just have been investors' reaction to the tech industry's hundred-billion-dollar holdup of the rest of the country to "fix the bug."
Assuming that Yahoo, even with its recent run-up, will do better over the next five years than Laidlaw, then the S&P will do better than it would otherwise have done.
The WP and NYT lead with the run-up to Thursday's start of the Senate impeachment trial.
The WP account states that in the run-up to last week's announcement of the talks, the U.S. engaged in much secret diplomacy, including a dozen phone calls between President Clinton and Syria's Hafez Assad.