It won an election for governor of Rio Negro province, and an opinion poll gave the Alliance candidate a ten-point lead over his Peronist rival ahead of October's presidential election.
Branko Crvenkovski, the Social Democratic prime minister of Macedonia , took a clear lead over his conservative rival in the first round of voting to find a successor for President Boris Trajkovksi, who was killed in a plane crash two months ago.
News of Medtronic's rival patents broke when Cardio was in a late round of financing-and its lead investor backed out.
Having sold 3.7 million vehicles for the fiscal year, mostly motorcycles, Hero Honda widened its lead over rival Bajaj Auto and took a 57% share of India's motorcycle market.
The result gave the Ibrox side a four-point lead over Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premier League ahead of their rival's match on Sunday.
Military veterans made up one fourth of the Republican voters, and McCain had a 10-point lead over his rival with this group.
Publishers, writers and rival bookstores had feared that Amazon's discounts would lead to its domination of the e-market.
Polls show the last dash has done little to alter voting intentions, with Mr. Hollande, who led the pack in the first round of the presidential election on Apr. 22, still holding a comfortable lead over his rival.
The defending world champion stretched his lead at the top of the standings in the process and is now 31 points ahead of main rival Marcus Gronholm.
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News of Medtronic's rival patents broke when Cardio was in a late round of financing--and its lead investor backed out.
Monti killed that deal on a theory called conglomeratization: By buying a maker of machinery that produces rival plastic bottles, Tetra Laval could in a few years leverage its lead position in cartons to also control plastic alternatives (glass bottles and tin cans are the packaging products still out of Tetra Laval's reach).
Mr Lula has a strong lead in the polls 14 months ahead of the first round of presidential elections and is thought to be the main rival to Cordoso's centre-left party's candidate.
"I'll try and take all the points I can get, I don't think about the globes yet, " Hirscher told the official FIS website, but with his nearest rival, world downhill champion Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway only sixth, he has a 209 point lead in the overall standings.
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