31.   Many stock pickers lately have been selling, not buying, equities in the computerized reservations companies.

32.   More in the vein of Peter Lynch, Warren E. Buffett and John Templeton, his mentor and the company founder, Holowesko is a stock picker.

33.   No longer dot-com heavy, the pipeline companies represent a range of industries to entice stock pickers.

34.   Normandy America presents itself as a stock picker extraordinaire, while Risk Capital makes no such claims and plans to concentrate on investments in the insurance business.

35.   Peter Lynch, its smooth-talking stock picker, shows up on commercials nationwide.

36.   Q. So it may be more of an environment for stock pickers than index funds?

37.   Shares of the computer power supply maker fell after a closely watched Internet stock picker, Greg Markus, decided to sell his stock after the recent run-up.

38.   So far this year, the market has made a lot of money for stock pickers -- but it has also given them some headaches.

39.   Stock pickers anticipated that companies that showed confidence in their shares by announcing buyback programs before the market opened yesterday might also have an edge.

40.   Some people are lucky enough to be personally acquainted with a good stock picker.