He'd run about 26 miles to tell his fellow Greeks that the Athenian army had defeated the Persians and of course a marathon today commemorates the 26 plus miles the messenger ran.
Toto did not like it. He run about the room, now here, now there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still in the floor and and waited to see what would happen.
The Federal Reserve targets annual inflation of 2%, but on a different measure- the price index for personal consumption expenditures-which tends to run about a third of a percentage point cooler than CPI.
He ran about the room, dug in all the boxes and drawers, and even looked under the bed in search of a piece of bread, hard though it might be, or a cookie, or perhaps a bit of fish.
Inflation has run about a quarter of a percentage point lower using the chained CPI, and about a third of a point lower using another measure, the BEA's price index of personal consumption expenditure (PCE).
To show that her departure would leave him unmoved, he skipped up and down the room, playing gaily on his heartless pipes. She had to run about after him, though it was rather undignified.
That's because development of a new antibiotic runs about $2 billion and takes about 10 years-with little hope of ending up with the sort of blockbuster drug that justifies such an investment.