Word: runner
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...race that has shaped up to be longer and more expensive than any other in history. Will Barack Obama continue to raise money faster and from more people than any Democrat has before, or will Hillary Clinton edge him out in this latest period? Has onetime front-runner John McCain, having upended the organization that had spent his campaign into near insolvency, begun to rebuild his bank account and his viability? How much of his own vast fortune is Mitt Romney going to put into his own campaign, and will that put his total over Rudy Giuliani...
...have to admit that I felt some empathy for Lauren Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina and a runner-up to Miss Teen USA who became an overnight Internet sensation in August for her badly boggled and meandering answer to the question: Why can't one-fifth of Americans locate the United States on a map? I've been in the spotlight too, and I've lost my train of thought in the middle of answering a question, heard the rush of blood to my brain as I desperately tried to get back on track. I could feel her pain...
...manager David Plouffe. Obama's advisers say he doesn't have to win there, just beat expectations. In 1972, Iowa gave George McGovern a big boost in momentum, even though he finished 13 points behind Edmund Muskie. And Georgia's obscure former Governor went from "Jimmy Who?" to front runner in 1976 on the strength of coming in 9 points behind "Uncommitted...
...rush to recruit then? First and foremost, it's the pressure on coaches to win because the rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace...
...conservative administration. However, the moment Abe's resignation hit the airwaves, the LDP's factional politics went into high gear - and within 24 hours, 71-year-old Fukuda, who only last year declined to run for Prime Minister due to his old age, was the indisputable front-runner in the two-man race...