71.   Picking the winner, though, can be as hard as guessing who will go home with the gold at the Olympic Games in Atlanta this month.

72.   Picking winners among technology stocks is risky.

73.   Pro golfer Phil Mickelson is pretty good at picking winners on his Web site.

74.   Put the managers from each company in brackets, then pick the winners.

75.   Rather than pick winners from those who enter, the companies select a potential winning number from the entries mailed out.

76.   Rahman declined to pick a winner in that fight, but Holyfield predicted that Tyson would win by a knockout.

77.   Readers will pick the winners.

78.   She loved to fish in the surf off Cape Cod, to sink difficult shots on the golf course, and to pick the winner in the Kentucky Derby.

79.   Should the United States follow the Japanese and let a government ministry pick the winners who will be favored with investment capital?

80.   So much for trying to pick winners.