• He compares plutocracy in modern America to its forerunners in 17th-century Holland and 19th-century Britain.

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  • "The Dons were the forerunners for the modern game, " Sports Illustrated's Kelli Anderson wrote in 2006.

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  • This, advocates hope, will give a second-generation vaccine time to steal the market from its forerunners.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Those forerunners also promised a software revolution by hosting the software applications of companies.

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  • If Bush needs inspiration to find his pastime paradise, he should look to the lives of his forerunners.

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  • The Halo rings that were created by the Forerunners to destroy the Flood.

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  • The Germans wanted to know whether their missiles the forerunners of the space rockets were reaching the cities they were aimed at.

    ECONOMIST: Eddie Chapman

  • Those 13 British colonies on a sliver of the East Coast were the forerunners of what would become the 50 United States.

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  • The clone du jour may also be more virulent than her forerunners.

    ECONOMIST: African honeybees

  • Whatever: The Plzen lager now known as Pilsner Urquell (German for "Plzen's Original Source"), came out lighter-bodied and more golden-colored than its Bavarian forerunners.

    FORBES: Czech Mate

  • He is rather more generous to Herbert Hoover than were some of his forerunners, although he never hesitates to criticise him severely when criticism is called for.

    ECONOMIST: American history

  • If the precise moment of inception is vague the point of victory of the lounge suit over its forerunners as the standard battledress of the office worker is clearer.

    ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

  • Notable projects like the Andaz 5th Avenue have served as forerunners for booming interest in New York by the largest national chains as well as domestic and foreign investors.

    FORBES: $300 Per Night Rooms Spurs NYC Hotel Building Frenzy

  • These were the forerunners of Macbeth and his wife.

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  • The fledgling stock markets in the Gulf are volatile at the best of times and, of course, they have continued to track their more established forerunners throughout this rollercoaster of a month.

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  • It goes from the Precursors to the Forerunners to the Covenant to the Flood, and by the end, you should have a bit of a clearer picture about the grand story of the series.

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  • The imagery might also be consistent with an alternative theory which was aired in the Jewish Chronicle, a British weekly: that the codices belonged to forerunners of the mystical tradition which became known as Kabbalah.

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  • On education, the Bloomberg administration was among the nation's forerunners in changing the culture of public schools and testing new ideas to raise test scores and student achievement in the mayor's first two terms with then-Chancellor Joel Klein.

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  • It's a reference to the pre-World War II forerunners of a corporate form whose modern iterations are better known as keiretsu, those vertically integrated manufacturing and trading cartels that gave Japan Inc. its fearsome reputation in the 1980s.

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  • And when you look at the success that you all had as forerunners, and people like Lance Allen and James Cleveland and others, the heightened fame that you guys had, in comparison, outside of, you know, maybe James Cleveland, and Mahalia Jackson, when you think about it, Yolanda Adams, Donny McClerkin, C.

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  • Although it has something in common with the Edinburgh, Westminster and Fortnightly Reviews, its 19th-century forerunners in Britain, it was a new creation for America: an intelligent, intelligible publication that got the best minds to explore the world of ideas, bringing thought and weight to bear on the great issues of the moment.

    ECONOMIST: Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77

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