1.   It reflected growing divisions between GOP chief executives over the formulas that the federal government will pick for distributing money from its trimmed social safety net programs.

2.   Judge Ahmed was appointed, and although some defense lawyers contend that the government had picked someone whom it could bully, events seemed to prove otherwise.

3.   Last year, the federal government picked about two dozen large cities to undergo specialized training in such areas as crisis control, decontamination, patient care and communication.

4.   Republicans still generally oppose the kind of industrial policy under which the government picks certain companies, products or industries for support.

5.   These plans are managed by state governments, and the government picks both the managers and the investment products your money will go into.

6.   Developers were expressing strong interest, and if the stock market is any indication, the government might have picked a good time to reopen the property market.

7.   Former ICANN chairwoman Esther Dyson said board members directly elected by Internet users would have greater accountability than ones picked by governments.

8.   The government has picked four possible sites in the United States to set up a factory to assemble an Indonesian-designed passenger plane, a minister said Wednesday.

9.   The government picked Quang Ngai for political rather than economic reasons, said an executive with Total SA.

10.   They suggest the government will pick especially notorious cases for scapegoats.