On the opposite coast, South Carolina Tea Party candidate Nikki Haley is a top contender for governor.
As recently as this summer, Mr Allen was considered a top contender for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
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His re-emergence as a top contender for the job means that Suharto is acting as he always has.
Oakley the German wirehaired pointer enters as the nation's No. 1 show dog, with sleek Veni Vidi Vici the Doberman pinscher also a top contender.
Moreover, the GUI was highly regarded, and the sheer multitude of POIs and flexible routing options made the unit "a top contender" in the oversaturated realm.
An instrument called HARPS (short for High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) is also a top contender, having already spotted a number of potentially habitable worlds.
Obama, a little more than two years into his Senate term, is the most inexperienced candidate considering a run for the Democratic nomination, but nonetheless ranks as a top contender.
The former Head of the IMF and former Finance Minister of France was until mid-July seen as the top contender in the presidential race to challenge President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012.
Dreamworks was always the likely top contender, with viable franchises and brands via the Madagascar animals, the Shrek universe, and the expanding mythologies of How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda.
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"Vino" was poised to be a top contender in last year's Tour, but when five of his nine teammates were implicated in a doping scandal, his team found themselves without enough riders to compete.
Sebelius -- whom Obama seriously considered as his vice presidential nominee, according to administration officials -- had been rumored for weeks to be a top contender to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Syracuse will start spring practice with a primary goal of replacing quarterback Ryan Nassib, who set numerous records this past season in the Orange's up-tempo, no-huddle offense that Hackett installed, and Allen was expected to be a top contender.
It wasn't a particularly impressive event -- just a single shot in a tiny room supplemented with a bit of b-roll, including a top contender for one of the dorkiest promo videos in the history of the gaming industry.
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New Orleans is a top contender.
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They are very active now in events nationwide and has the quickest acceleration right now to be a top 3 contender in this space.
Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana is viewed by Vatican observers as the top African contender, according to John Allen, CNN analyst and correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.
But Arizona Republican John McCain, himself a top presidential contender who supports President Bush's Iraq plan, dismissed both the resolution and the proposals to cap the number of troops.
Three decades on, Fox-Pitt is an established GB international and a serious contender for top team and individual honours at next month's Olympics.
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The American billionaire owns a dozen luxury golf resorts -- including Florida's faded Doral and its renowned "Blue Monster" course which he plans to renovate -- but can his UK venture be considered a contender for top spot so early on?
Home Office statistics show Cardiff City is a contender for the top place in the sport's hooliganism league.
In Manchester Ed Miliband did much to stake his claim to be a serious contender for the top job.
Asked whether he might be a contender for the top job at a company where he has worked since getting a Ph.
Mr Fischer, once seen as a contender for the top job, championed a pro-Germany faction reluctant to see change in the traditional power structure of the bank.
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After his second place in this year's Giro, he should at least be a contender for the top 20 in the Tour de France, depending how his body copes with pushing strongly in two Grand Tours.
But a late-session rally brought stocks back into the black, following reports that a top Greek politician, viewed as a contender to be the next prime minister, signaled a commitment to implement austerity measures despite previously opposing them.
Early last year, she was said to have been a contender to fill a vacancy in the top spot at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Lake Austin was the spa world's Buffalo Bills: the perennial contender that never quite made it to the top.
People looking at Al Gore today see a product of the American upper crust: a presidential contender born in Washington, reared in a top-floor suite of a hotel along Embassy Row, his father a senator, his mother trained in law, the high-achieving parents grooming their prince for political success at the finest private schools in the East.
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Japanese contender Yoko Shibui is comforted by the presence of the "very top notch" British police.
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