But their lead was short-lived thanks to equally impressive approach play by St Johnstone.
The truth is, there is no sport in which men and women are able to compete more equally, thanks to golf's handicap system, which renders all players potentially equal, and to the placement of forward (or ladies') tees at most clubs, so that male and female drives wind up in more or less the same place.
Or, thanks to some equally unfortunate head placement, "Standinor the commod".
But Mason is finding that its ingenious trade may lose it millions, thanks to the equally adroit maneuvering of Telus.
At least a few Steeler fans, thanks to their equally devoted next of kin, had their ashes quietly strewn on the bright green plastic carpet of Three Rivers.
He has had five months and a half, and peace is not an inch nearer, thanks to an equally rebellious Mexican Congress.
"You might call Beckett the ultimate realist," one eminent critic says, while the title of Anthony Cronin's fine 1997 biography calls him "the last modernist," and, equally, thanks to his spiralling self-referentiality, he's often accounted the first postmodernist.
But equally, thanks both to his personality and, possibly, to his analysis – into which he went at the suggestion of another pal, the best-selling shrink Stephen Grosz – he is brilliant to talk to.
Professional stabber Jason Voorhees got his start at Camp Crystal Lake thanks to his equally stabby mother Mrs. Voorhees.
