Much of the race has focused on the more than $4 million spent to support Ms. Greuel by an outside group that includes the union that represents workers in the Department of Water and Power.
"Beasts" and eight other films were nominated for Best Picture -- "Amour," Ben Affleck's "Argo," "Django Unchained," "Les Miserables," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Silver Linings Playbook" and "Zero Dark Thirty" -- but the race had focused down to "Lincoln" and "Argo" as the Oscars approached.
So far, most of the attention in this new commercial space race has focused on Boeing, which has five decades of experience building spacecraft, and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX, for short — a brash upstart that gained credibility last year with two launchings of its Falcon 9 rocket.
Instead, the oil services arms race has focused on how to reach difficult deposits.
Though most of the attention so far in the mayoral race has focused on the battle for Democratic nomination – a reflection of the overwhelmingly Democrat-leaning electorate in the city – the Republican candidate should not be written off.
Sophie Walker, the leader of the Women's Equality party, expressed frustration that the debate about May and Leadsom's pre-eminence in the Conservative race has focused more on their gender than their policies.
Although mining and the environment have been hot topics in some of the other races, the urban CD9 race has focused on multiple issues, including the War on Women, campaign financing by ALEC, and immigrant rights.
But the search for what kind of candidates the party should put forward — as well as whether leaders in Washington and the party's top donors should even be involved in primary races — has focused new attention on the Republican infighting.
While the contest has been overshadowed by a colorful governor's race, Mr. DiNapoli has focused his campaign on pledges to restore integrity to the scandal-scarred office by pressing forward with the ethics reforms he has put in place.
