And Tuesday night, Trump extended a string of primary wins that have underscored his firm hold on his party.
The news from Hearst extends a string of closures, consolidations and layoffs that have racked the magazine industry in the last few months.
Group Danone of France has bid $121 million for New Zealand's largest fruit drink marker, the Frucor Beverages Group, extending a string of investments in bottled drink companies.
The Standard & Poor's 500-stock indroppedpped 5.45, to 957.59, and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell slightly, dropping 0.58 point, to 1,575.93, extending a string of losses this week.
Extending a string of mergers in the pulp and paper business, North America's largest manufacturer of paperboard packaging, Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation of Chicago, will purchase St. Laurent Paperboard Inc. of Montreal for about $1 billion in cash and stock.
Kevin L. Smith, a housing market analyst at Chapdelaine Credit Partners in New York, said the drop in the home construction and permit numbers extended a string of choppy readings since October, and that it was too soon to tell how housing would hold up.
The ruling extends a string of setbacks, as federal courts have halted the president's efforts to end a deferred-action program for young undocumented immigrants, bar Central Americans from seeking asylum in the United States, withhold funds from "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with federal enforcement operations and separate immigrant families at the border.
The price of crude oil rose $4.46, to $47.98 a barrel, extending a recent string of advances, helped in part by a forecast from the International Energy Agency that suggested global growth in oil demand would resume in 2009.
Arup, the London-based consulting firm that has already signed up for one such project near Shanghai, will announce it has clinched a deal to extend the concept into a string of cities around China.
Mr. McAdams rode to victory in the Fourth District — which includes a slice of progressive Salt Lake City but extends south to incorporate a string of more conservative cities and towns in Juab, Sanpete and Utah Counties — in part thanks to his record as mayor of Salt Lake County, which covers 85percentt of the district.
