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  • The writer is executive director of Homestretch, which provides services and transitional housing for the homeless.

    Poverty is everyone's problem washingtonpost.com editors 2010

  • "One of the worst was the Homestretch with a whorehouse upstairs and the occasional thugs in the parking lot threatening people with knives and guns."

    TV personality, country singer and sausage-maker Jimmy Dean dies at 81 Terence McArdle 2010

  • COLLINS: Homestretch in the race for the White House.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2008 2008

  • Course contents are clearly outlined and divided into five parts: Introduction and Hiragana (the native Japanese alphabet), Katakana (the alphabet for foreign words), Dialogues and Grammar, Voicetracks and The Homestretch.

    Speaking Their Language 2008

  • My amazement at this stroke of luck dissolved as I realized my crampons and ice tool were now unavailable for my planned descent of the Homestretch.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • But first we rounded an outside corner and were looking up at the Homestretch, a three-hundred-foot-high open dihedral formed at the crease where two sections of the summit walls create an inside corner, like an open book.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • His tentative style in such a precarious place concerned us; we joked that if he slipped, he would knock us both off the Homestretch, like bowling for climbers.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • A few minutes later, I walked over to the Homestretch.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • Jon and I stopped to watch a summiteer descend the Homestretch above us in his blue jeans.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

  • In ten minutes, I had crossed this last obstacle of the Homestretch and rejoined my ascent tracks, eventually reaching the fissure where my bag was lodged.

    127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004

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