Yet for Republicans, the contest, as of now, is instead looming as a lost opportunity -- a vanishing chance to win the governorship of the nation's most-populous state and rebut the notion that the state that produced Ronald Reagan has become solidly Democratic.
The report's title, Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity, captures its main finding: Ninety-six percent of respondents say that research budgets are not growing fast enough to keep up with the scientific opportunities.
The report, Unlimited Potential, Vanishing Opportunity, is the result of a survey of approximately 3700 scientists, the majority of them academic biologists and biomedical researchers who hold faculty positions.
People in the city talked about a collective fatigue with years of dwindling incomes, vanishing job opportunities and a loss of a sense of security.
And rhetorically, the notion of locking criminals up is an easier sell to many people than confronting the many contributors to urban crime: poverty, vanishing economic opportunity, easy access to guns, gang warfare (some of which is, in fact, drug-related), and even boredom.
Driving through some of the towns and neighborhoods where Herbalife has flourished is like taking a tour of vanished economic opportunity.
"Compare it with the fast-vanishing opportunities to become a joint venture partner with one of the corporate groups (the largest being Vets4Pets, part of Pets at Home) that are very costly and involve large amounts of debt.
He was unaware that another opportunity was vanishing.
He moved lithely through the lane but committed two offensive fouls when opportunities vanished.
But opportunities vanish as quickly as a car down the straightaway here, and Graham Rahal can refer to his father's path as an owner for evidence of that.
The BFFS warned that "direct support to over 500 community-based film exhibitors could vanish, reducing the opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people to see the best of world cinema in their local area".
