1.   All cars were judged over the two days at given times for sound quality including staging, stereo image, clarity, frequency separation and absence of noise.

2.   His first six months will be important, but he deserves to be judged over his full six years.

3.   Of course, the overall winner will be judged over time.

4.   Still, he said, he wants investors to judge him over a two-year period, not week to week.

5.   Turn judging over to computers, and skating loses its unique charm, the skaters say.