Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when a straw vote will be taken on the presidency. The Kennedy forces do not expect to win the straw vote, which has no official standing, because nearly half the dele gates will be chosen by party regulars loyal to Carter. But Kennedy would like to come out ahead in the caucus selection, which would be a blow to Carter in a state where the President is still popular...
...never aspired to the very summit of power. Successive leaders beginning with Stalin had valued his competence; none had seen him as a potential rival. His actions were not in service to personal ambition. His commitment to duty was vividly illustrated when his wife was fatally ill; Kosygin went ahead with his day's chores, even continuing to stand on Lenin's Tomb to review a Red Square parade after the message of her death reached...
...gold frenzy continues to weaken the buck, OPEC might again move to lift its dollar-denominated price of oil sharply. Uncertainty over just what the greenback will be worth in months ahead would slow much trade that is negotiated in dollars. Beyond that, economists disagree about whether gold itself poses any threat. Many believe, as Economist John Maynard Keynes said, that gold is just a "barbarous relic," a commodity like pork bellies that should have no more monetary impact than wampum beads. Yet in this real world, the bullion boom could ultimately prove highly inflationary...
Timilty has a Herculean chore ahead of him if he is to pick up the votes cast in the primary for state rep Melvin H. King and school committee president David Finnegan...
Only the steady play of sweeper Peter Segienko and the Wesleyan forwards' insistence on imitating Giorgio Chinaglia's wife rather than the Italian star himself kept Harvard ahead...