The government's going to be meth "tally tracking down every potential lead.
Suddenly, the Redskins had gone from a potential 11-point lead to a third-and-39 from their own 40-yard line.
Inspector Bowen said that there hadn't been funding to follow up potential leads.
But a killer was on the loose, and they couldn't afford to let a potential lead slip away.
If the information for a given identification step is not available, several potential leads must be followed and identification becomes increasingly difficult.
But each letter was a potential lead to the bomber's thinking and whereabouts.
Questions were being asked about the police's alleged slow reaction to potential leads and an apparently missed opportunity to catch him over the weekend.
But a grisly discovery soon deflated any exhilaration over the potential lead.
The best potential lead they had was the identity of the black man who'd driven the van.
He could see potential leads, looming problems, possible solutions where others didn't.