Its problem is that it can never seem to capitalize on its front-runner status, lacking the financial might of Sony and the let's-get-it-right-first prudence of Nintendo.
It's time for the G.O.P. to face up to its front-runner.
The Socialist Party has been knocked sideways by the arrest of its front-runner.
By assiduously cultivating its front-runner status, the Obama campaign has aided its ability to press future arguments.
And yet on this issue Cruz seems in line with today's Republican Party, beginning with Donald Trump, its front-runner in the Presidential race.
Then, the A.F.C. will have its front-runner for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, and the N.F.L. will have its Super Bowl favorite.
For all the talk of hard feelings between Bernie Sanders and Clinton, whose four wins this week effectively sealed her nomination, the Republican Party is more divided ideologically and less sanguine about its front-runner.
Since 2000, the United States has maintained its front-runner status in the chemistry prize category, its citizens winning at least part of the award most years and shut out only twice, in 2007 and 2011.
C.C.H.A. Michigan State maintained its front-runner status with victories over Northern Michigan, 4-2 and 3-0, while second-place Michigan needed an overtime goal by Mike Cammalleri to beat Miami of Ohio, 3-2, last Friday night, and prevailed, 5-2, on Saturday at Oxford.
Even Mitt Romney, whose campaign favored the earlier Nevada contest but had to mind its front-runner status in New Hampshire, said, "I take my cues from Bill Gardner". Shortly after, Nevada surrendered.
Jason Reitman's Up in the Air opens in ten theaters as it attempts to cement its status as an Oscar front runner (barring unforeseen variables, a review is coming Tuesday night or Wednesday morning).
