On the show last night, Mr. Leno joked, in reference to Mr. Thompson's long "testing the waters" of a candidacy phase, "You've been in the water for a while now, are you starting to get a bit wrinkly?" Mr. Thompson, 65, said his wrinkles did not come from water, and added: "We're where we need to be right now, and that's one of the things I need to talk to you about.
The GOFURTGO Study evaluated both feasibility and efficacy of an enhanced chemotherapy regimen of induction gemcitabine– oxaliplatin, then 5 FU–3DC RT, followed by consolidation gemcitabine– oxaliplatin in patients with LAPC, to identify its potential candidacy for subsequent phase III evaluation.
Had Mr. Romney lost Michigan, his native state, his candidacy would have entered a phase of considerable doubt.
A year ago in the opening phase of his candidacy, Mr. Obama tried to appeal to voters because of his opposition to the war.
Mr. Romney technically remains in the exploratory phase of his candidacy, but has waged a more assertive fund-raising effort than any of his rivals.
Early on, during the more vaporous and messianic phase of his candidacy, Obama took more cautious stands than Hillary Clinton did, but this fall he began to embrace some of Clinton's positions that he had once refused to support, such as a moratorium on foreclosures and a government buyout of mortgages.
The former president gave speeches in support of his son's candidacy during the most intense phase of the Republican primaries, and since early last year, he has been the star attraction at 16 fund-raisers that brought in about $2.4 million, campaign officials said.
The testing-the-waters provision details when a candidate is in the exploratory phase of a candidacy, which requires the candidate to follow election laws, including bans on super PAC coordination and limits on raising funds.
A year ago, during the opening phase of his presidential candidacy, Mr. Obama sought to appeal to voters because of his initial opposition to the war.
A year ago, in the final days of summer, I wrote about Donald Trump's emerging candidacy, which was settling into a new phase as a durable and somewhat mystifying success.
(The one Republican given a shot at winning is Michael Bloomberg, the information-technology magnate, whose candidacy is still in the trial-balloon phase).
