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StretchOut Studios opened seven months ago in the Boston area, specializing in a type of athletic stretching technique called active isolated stretching.

“You have to let your body get used to it,” Rick Charron, the manager of StretchOut Studios, said.

Diner’s Diva, a $50,000 yearling purchase, has been a disappointment in her three starts, but maybe she will improve with the stretchout in distance.

Bankers emphasize that a stretchout of repayment schedules by no means implies that the loans will eventually go into default, but the banks will have to wait to get their money back.

Leaning partly on security, the P.M. said in essence that the government's stretchout of the original three-year defense program would amount to a cut of between a quarter and a third in original goals.