31.   But winning a competition is actually the easy part of this job.

32.   Both those NBC comedies, however, easily won the competition among the younger viewers most sought by advertisers.

33.   Consider, for instance, the recent reaction to the news that Zaha Hadid had won a competition to design a new opera house for Cardiff, in Wales.

34.   David Venz, an Airbus spokesman, said the European plane maker is winning the competitions against Boeing because its planes have greater commonality, such as similar cockpits.

35.   Eighteen-year-old Karen Savatto of Enfield, Conn., won five competitions this year, including the Junior World Trials.

36.   For once, Camplin won the competition of attrition.

37.   Having won the competition in August, his image is already changing.

38.   He was assured his berth on the team when he won the World Cup competition at Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, N.Y., last Saturday.

39.   He linked calypso to Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz, and his tunes were regularly arranged for steel bands, winning competitions as instrumentals.

40.   He wound up being one of the top five rookies in the NBA and made a name for himself when he won the slam-dunk competition in his inaugural season.