81.   Airbus Industrie and Boeing Co. are the two main contenders for MCLR deal and an Air India panel is presently evaluating the proposals by the two airline companies.

82.   Analysts rate Sanader and Pasalic as the main contenders.

83.   All three companies put the other main contenders, General Alexander Lebed and Grigory Yavlinsky, well behind.

84.   At least five candidates are expected to run for president, but Mugabe and Tsvangirai are the two main contenders.

85.   But it fizzled out with the main contenders Air France and Singapore Airlines-Tata group withdrawing from the race.

86.   Doku Zavgayev, the interim Moscow-installed leader in Chechnya, is the other main contender in the polls.

87.   Zia, who heads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and rival Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina Wajed are the main contenders to power.

88.   Japan already has a grand prix but Asia could get a second race from next year, with China and Indonesia considered the main contenders.

89.   Major is believed to regard Rifkind as the most suitable successor with Scottish Secretary Ian Lang as the other main contender, according to the Times.

90.   Ramon and Barak appear to be the two main contenders to succeed Peres at the Labour helm.