"We can't say that is where tennis is going, that we will always play for that long but we have longer rallies, less serve-and-volley.
But this time, the dollar has rallied less than 20% against the highs of the euro and has actually lost more than 20% against the yen while staying flat against the Chinese renminbi.
But declining issues outnumbered advancers on the New York Stock Exchange, an indication that the rally was less than wholehearted.
At times, the rally resembled less a political happening than a body piercing convention, with earrings sprouting from noses, eyebrows, tongues, lips and sometimes even ears.
The "Forward on Climate" rally comes less than a week after President Obama urged American leaders to "act before it is too late," on climate change during his State of the Union address.
"The lines to get into the plaza went more than a mile," said Mr. Davila, showing photographs his assistant had taken at the Obama rally held less than half a block from his pharmacy.
Ms Clinton's rally was less than half a mile away, a walk that took in a bail bond shop, the local courthouse, a furniture store and was accompanied by the dischordant horn of a freight train passing on tracks alongside the Mississippi River.
In the professional matches of today, the average rally is less than four times across the net.
The rally come less than three weeks after hundreds of thousands marched in Washington, New York and elsewhere to demand tougher gun laws after the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17. (Sean Simmers /PennLive.com via AP).
