Federer 4-6, 7-5, 6*-5 Roddick Federer has raised his performance since the break, and only drops a point as he unpicks Roddick's game to poise himself for a possible set-winning next game.
The candidate now stands poised to declare himself the darling of disenfranchised conservatives, if not Republicans at large.
Woods teed off the back nine around midday Friday under a cloudless sky and seemed poised to assert himself as the player to beat.
With the Clippers coming to town for a nationally televised game on Wednesday, the Knicks could very well find themselves compelled to give Anthony, Chandler, Amar'e Stoudemire – himself poised to return – and the rest of the regulars some additional rest.
At one point he finds himself poised over the upper tiers of the audience, arms spread and ready to fly; at another he discovers a gun in his hand, which he uses to disastrous effect.
By 1981, Fellowes gave up on storming the National and moved to Los Angeles, where he spent two years playing minor roles — he was the chauffeur in "Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess," starring Lynda Carter — and finally found himself poised for his big break: replacing Hervé Villechaize on "Fantasy Island".
By combining those elements with his personal brand of humor, humility, humanity, sanity and civility, Jon Stewart would be uniquely poised to transform himself into the most trusted man in America, a 21st-century Walter Cronkite on a mission to re-program or even dismantle the conflictinator.
Goncharenko himself is poised on the brink of history.
