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AT&T still faces a crushing debt load of nearly $170 billion, and an expensive build-out of its 5G network, as well as rival carriers who seem to have a jump on the next generation of fast mobile internet service.

Money is one of the reasons private schools have a jump on public schools as the new school year approaches amid the coronavirus.

I had thought we would have a jump on the crowds, but there was a fair scattering of other hikers—three students from Rutgers University in New Jersey; an astoundingly fit older couple with tiny packs hiking to their daughter’s wedding in far-off Virginia; a gawky kid from Florida named Jonathan—perhaps two dozen of us altogether in the same general neck of the woods, all heading north.

The nearly two dozen other candidates in the field already have a jump on Steyer in fundraising and endorsements.

Having played 49 games with the Kings last season, Gravel was thought to have a jump on making the opening-night roster.