21.   Scientists themselves love to spoof it by establishing betting pools, whose purpose is not so much to anticipate the experts as to register votes for future choices.

22.   That is an immense move in a betting pool as large as that of the Santa Anita Derby.

23.   The operator of football betting pools, home shopping services and high street retail shops said it may consider the offer Thursday.

24.   --There are betting pools.

25.   Walters has always acknowledged that he operates a betting pool and for years placed bets with illegal bookies.

26.   Yet his vow spurs a global betting pool on the Internet, causing co-workers to tempt him in order to win the pot.

27.   As the scientists gathered at the site, they opened a betting pool estimating the force of the explosion.

28.   Interest in the count is so high in his office that workers have organized a betting pool on the outcome.

29.   Italians wager millions of dollars each year on soccer betting pools run by the national Olympic committee.

30.   Officials of the national soccer betting pool lamented that bettors may be hampered by lack of information about the absence of leading players in some matches.