In 2012, however, the race is too close to read the early voting tea leaves - but McDonald says the bulk of early votes will come in next week, at which point stronger trends might point to an eventual winner.
Without question, Japan is an important and critical market for building a globally successful gaming platform, and an early read of the tea leaves does not bode well for the Xbox 360.
We sip our tea and produce an early supper for our brood who, after the initial excitement of departure has died down, are too tired and ravenous to wait.
The big news over the weekend was that, as the Washington Post put it, "senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, " contrary to the claim we heard Friday.
It was a bit frustrating early but they were two-for at tea and now they're nine down.
"It wasn't easy, as in those early days India was considered an exporter of tea and jute, not high-tech services, " he smiles.
The day's play finished early when Pakistan stayed in their dressing room after tea in protest.
After three military tours in Vietnam and a stint at the natural-food store in Portland, he blended his first herbal tea in 1975 at Stash Tea, in which he was an early partner.
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But Voges was 54 not out at tea, and found further support from Pomersbach early in the final session.
Obviously if it were her own it would have come out looking like a fine china tea cup and smelling of spring's early blooms.
The early loss of Simon Katich to Stuart Broad just before tea only served to emphasise the scale of England's about-turn in fortunes since the start of the final session on day three.
Ms Lovell weaves this story into the historical brocade of the early 19th century, when European demand for Chinese silk, tea and porcelain was insatiable.
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The controversy arose in early 2012, when reports began to surface that newly formed tea-party and other conservative groups that had applied for tax-exempt status were receiving letters from the IRS asking for disclosure of their donors and other information that typically isn't requested of groups making such applications.
But this early show of political maturity will demonstrate to independents that the freshmen and tea party Republicans they elected in November aren't the yahoos of media lore.
The improper targeting of tea-party and other conservative groups appears to have started in early 2010.
An early pioneer in the health food space as the founder of The Republic of Tea and later of Odwalla, Rosenzweig is no stranger to understanding the innovation trajectory.
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Such advance analyses is the key to reading the tea leaves correctly from new developments as they come to pass and act with conviction quickly and early.
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