11.   Bain recently installed its pick for chief executive, Joel Schleicher, a former Nextel president.

12.   Bloomberg and Raymond Kelly his pick for police commissioner at a press conference, Thursday.

13.   A month ago, Lloyd would have been an easy pick for Torre.

14.   A man who sounds so much like the New Democrat that Bill Clinton has failed to be will never win over these delegates and become their pick for president.

15.   All of that makes it a great pick for a summer fabric.

16.   But should another team want Pierce, they would have to give the Giants a first-round pick for compensation.

17.   But the Canadian teams were not willing to give up a high pick for Nash, who was seen as a possible way to halt sliding ticket sales.

18.   CBS gets six of the top nine preseason picks for games while ESPN gets the other three.

19.   Charismatic, who came within a fractured ankle of sweeping the Triple Crown, would be a reasonable sentimental pick for sentimentalists in a year without a perfect candidate.

20.   Condoleezza Rice, the pick for national security adviser, sat on the board of Chevron Corp.