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The goal is what some market participants call a "stretchout," which replaces short-term debt with longer-term financing.
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The goal is what some market participants call a "stretchout," which replaces short-term debt with longer-term financing.
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Do you remember what some people talked about as the "stretchout"?
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Well, they always had a thing that they called a "stretchout" system.
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It was the era of the stretchout -- sometimes called "The Beedo system" -- in which the idea was to work one's employees to exhaustion in order to extract maximum profit out of the human body.
The '30S 2008
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I remember them talking about the stretchout, but I really never did know too much about it.
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If they changed styles and put a style on with good material and all, you could run more of it, they give you one or two more looms, but I don't know as that was the stretchout.
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At Elizabethtown, Tennessee, rayon mills had been built, and they had drawn down workers from the hills around there who commuted to the factory, and it was all non-union, and the complaint was against the stretchout.
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Do you know what I'm talking about when I say a speedup or a stretchout?
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Myrtle's Gray has been third best in last two sprinting; may appreciate stretchout to two turns.
NY Daily News JERRY BOSSERT 2011
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