Wimbledon, a MacArthur "Genius" grant, "Project Runway, " "The Price is Right, " the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest, the Booker Prize or a Grammy for best spoken-word album.

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In theory, a glittering prize awaits the victors of this contest.

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But while both camps acknowledged that there was a contest going on, and while everybody knew what the prize was, nobody ever mentioned Aron.

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It became clear to me in the early 1990s when for a couple of years I was a judge in the annual Loebner Prize Competition, an annual contest to find out if any computer could yet pass what is known as the Turing test: if it could fool a person into thinking it was a human.

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Florida is the biggest prize so far in the GOP presidential contest, and polls suggest a tight race.

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In 1946 the watch won the equivalent of a timepiece Oscar--first prize in the Geneva Astronomical Observatory Timing contest.

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In addition, the Ben Heck bobblehead contest continues, giving viewers a chance to win show t-shirts and the grand prize bobblehead.

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"As the prize does not often go to a previous winner it could well be a very open contest this year, although Carey and McEwan are the natural frontrunners, " he said.

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