11.   After all, who gets anywhere in life just by winning popularity contests?

12.   After what he did last week, Dr. Herman A. Sirois is unlikely to win any popularity contests at future gatherings of his fellow school superintendents.

13.   All those shifts may indicate that analysts are right in saying the post-Robinson presidency has become a popularity contest, with the emphasis on style over substance.

14.   All-Star balloting, granted, is a popularity contest.

15.   ALL-STAR LIST OF ANALYSTS COMES OUT Institutional Investor published its annual popularity contest for Wall Street analysts.

16.   But aides to most candidates said that they did not expect to race to the West Coast to participate in a popularity contest.

17.   But as Ms. Browner knows, this is not a popularity contest.

18.   But even though Dell is making new friends in school, Apple is still keeping the old, allowing it to ultimately win the popularity contest.

19.   But he denies any publicity effort to have Gates win a popularity contest.

20.   But like the Academy Awards, the II survey is criticized for being little more than a popularity contest.