51.   Rather than flip a coin or decide by lottery, the Board of Education retained Ms. Williams, invoking a statewide affirmative-action policy.

52.   Seasonal forecasts are improving but results are still only a bit better than flipping a coin.

53.   Seasonal forecasts are improving, but the results are still only marginally better than flipping a coin.

54.   Seasonal forecasts are still experimental with results that are only a bit better than flipping a coin.

55.   Seasonal forecasts are still experimental with results only slightly better than flipping a coin.

56.   So when it comes down to it, flip a coin, call heads ... and figure the Giants will win.

57.   So he gathered the jumpy Kenny Rogers and the stoic Jimmy Key beneath the Green Monster at Fenway Park and pretended to flip a coin.

58.   The board should have flipped a coin.

59.   The commissioner of the National Basketball Association, Walter Kennedy, flipped a coin and one Lew Alcindor went to Milwaukee to begin the modern hoops era.

60.   The director flips a coin.