71.   They have conducted studies, they say, to show that comparisons can be made fairly, given the right items and the right scoring systems.

72.   They ought to do something about the scoring system, too.

73.   Under a complicated scoring system, a skater who finishes among the top three in the short program wins the overall competition with a victory in the long program.

74.   A malfunctioning scoring system failed to tally laps for several leaders.

75.   A new scoring system will report everything fans want to know about every shot by every player in every round.

76.   A new scoring system will make it even more unpredictable.

77.   A new scoring system, that will make matches shorter, might also allow less-touted teams such as the Americans to spring surprises.

78.   Adding to the surprise factory, the championship in this medieval city is the first under a new scoring system that upgrades artistic performance at the expense of acrobatics.

79.   Aklestad said the boxers would be better served if the computer scoring system counted individual blows for the five judges and then used the totals to determine the winner.

80.   Aklestad also was concerned about potential abuse of the computer scoring system, and the inability to correct human error.