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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A fertile valley of northwest Wyoming in the Rocky Mountains east of the Teton Range. Named after a fur trapper, David Jackson, who stayed in the region during the winter of 1828–1829, it is a popular ski area and year-round resort.

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  • I think there was a flaw in the theory there, that essentially you could call the Jackson Hole consensus.

    Hugh McGuire: Economic Meltdown or Back to Normal? 2009

  • Jackson Hole which is just down the street here on second avenue is absolutely better.

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  • As part of its unusual public criticism of the AMR Corp. unit, the National Transportation Safety Board on Friday said the airline improperly downloaded information for its own use from the flight-data recorder of a Boeing 757 that rolled past the end of a runway at Jackson Hole on Dec. 29.

    Runway Probe Excludes Airline Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Investors had hoped that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke would provide details of the Fed's next moves during a highly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo. last Friday.

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  • The turning point for the year came in late August, when during a speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke opened the door for a second round of so-called quantitative easing.

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  • For some market participants, that seemed to open the door to some additional actions from the Federal Reserve, perhaps as soon as Federal Reserve's late-August conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

    Treasury Prices Get a Lift Min Zeng 2011

  • Most other film festivals happen to be held at appealing locales -- the south of France, the mountains of Colorado, Maui, Jackson Hole, Santa Fe, to name a few -- putting Nantucket's in good company.

    Linda Flanagan: The Nantucket Film Festival: A Reason to Leave the Beach Linda Flanagan 2011

  • Many people wants to live in Jackson Hole, Wyo., but few can afford it.

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  • Most other film festivals happen to be held at appealing locales -- the south of France, the mountains of Colorado, Maui, Jackson Hole, Santa Fe, to name a few -- putting Nantucket's in good company.

    Linda Flanagan: The Nantucket Film Festival: A Reason to Leave the Beach Linda Flanagan 2011

  • "I just think that at the end of the day the Fed was looking to buy a bit of time here, and have another shot at it at Jackson Hole if they really think that something is required," said Carl Lantz , head of U.S. interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse in New York.

    Treasury Prices Get a Lift Min Zeng 2011

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