Word: leading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned heads in the 1650 freestyle, smashing the pool record at 15:02.29, nine full seconds under the previous mark. Martin's time at the 1000-yard mark (9:07.01) broke his own pool record. All-American Austin Ramirez, one of Virginia's biggest stars, initially threatened Martin's lead, but soon Ramirez fell off, unable to keep up with Martin's speedy turnover...
...Both McDougall and Baxter kept Harvard in the race for the lead by turning out gutsy performances...
...benefit of no political haggling. The plan requires all insurance companies and medical providers that receive federal funding (roughly one third of all hospital and doctor visits) to develop practices to avoid medical errors. This is such a huge chunk of the medical industry that experts say it could lead to industry-wide reform. The President also received a pledge from the American Hospital Association to compile data on errors from its 5,000 member hospitals and implement a system to avoid the most common ones. But while this all may very well mean safer medical practices...
Edward M. Kennedy, despite his long career in the U.S. Senate, is still often known as Teddy, the diminutive attached to him as the youngest brother in his powerful family. The nickname persists because he was blessed and cursed by the gift of years that let him lead a full and well-publicized life that could only diminish him against the gargantuan mythology grown up around his murdered brothers John and Robert...
...Robert Kennedy's nomination was still far from a sure thing, even after he won the California primary. Thus the popular notion that assassination prevented another Kennedy presidency is seen as largely false. Steel paints Robert as much more conservative than the liberal, even radical movement he sought to lead. But his huge appeal is rooted in the fact that he was a troubled man in a troubled time. "The Bobby Myth," he concludes, "is our creation, not his." Steel makes Robert seem less than we remember; Clymer makes Teddy more important than we may have thought...