The euro has risen by about 18% against the dollar since March, and on Monday was once again within reach of the $1.50 barrier: it bought $1.494 in late trading in London, up from $1.491 late Friday in New York.
Collecting, once within the reach of thousands of buyers with modest means, has become a rich man's hobby.
Still, she was mindful of the idea that, as she put it, "the things we desire and long for, once they are within reach, we change them".
After two seasons of failure by the Lakers' demanding standards (defeats in the Western Conference semi-finals), a title once again looked within reach.
While Iberian gallwasps have failed to shift from Q. suber in Iberia to Q. cerris north of the Pyrenees, M. stigmatizans was able to shift from Iberian hosts to invading hosts once these came within reach.
Despite oil companies' relentless search for new finds, and the technological sophistication that has brought once-inaccessible reservoirs within reach, some analysts question predictions of a rush to the Arctic.
McKelway's work has not been accorded the posthumous beatification attending the writings of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, but a generous new anthology, "Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from The New Yorker" (Bloomsbury; $16), with eighteen of his articles from the magazine and an introduction by Adam Gopnik, puts his work within reach once again, and high time.
But with a dominant defense and a gruesome ball-controlling offense, the Lombardi Trophy is once again coming seemingly within reach.
On this scene, you pave your own road -- and although it's cliché, anything is within reach once you've made it to this stage.
Once the cicada came within reach, the katydid snared it with its fore- and often midlegs and subdued it by partially biting off the head, a behavior common to many predatory orthopterans [15 and pers. obs.].
