1.   Aunt May is only the front runner.

2.   Victory at the Dell today would keep Rangers among the early season front runners.

3.   The front runner has long seemed to be head injury, in which a microdialysis probe might readily accompany a pressure monitor and provide a guide to metabolic state.

4.   The front runners will, therefore, be zones charges by distance or time and congestion metering.

5.   Also considered a front runner is the Hunt-Western Resources bid.

6.   Among watchers of Sensormatic and Checkpoint, the consensus at the moment is that Checkpoint is the front runner because its tags are easier to install.

7.   Analysts expected that Nash and McGrath, the front runners for the chief executive post, would each quit if not chosen.

8.   At the time Banque Nationale de Paris SA was the front runner to buy the group.

9.   Before the Boeing purchase, McDonnell Douglas was thought to be the front runner.

10.   Behaving as if he were already the Democratic nominee, Gore saved his critiques for the Republican front runner, Texas Gov. George W. Bush.