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If I said all the things that have been said before about Hitchcock, you’d be ahead of me and guess what’s happening next, and we probably wouldn’t be speaking now.

The rain was forecast all day and Australia knew as long as they did not lose wickets they would always be ahead of the DLS par score.

They jump a lot of strange ways, but that's why it's so important to do what we're talking about: to be ahead of the game, actually solve problems, don't appeal to people's fear and panic, but actually do the smart things to prove that it works and make that happen.

Director David Leitch tops himself with his new action-comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, but his greatest legacy may be ahead of him — if the motion picture academy takes notice.

"But it is nice to be ahead of the curve and to offer patients treatment that isn't available anywhere else."