• At stake is--pick a number--billions of potential users and ever-more unique ways to separate cash from Web users.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Asia Buzz: Let the Best Portal Win

  • Mr. LYNN TURNER (Former Chief Accountant, SEC): I would almost say that the title on the letter could just about be pick a number, any number.

    NPR: SEC Changes On The Table

  • Once we pick a number, then sometimes the issue comes up of a transition period, from the present floating system to the initiation of the gold standard system.

    FORBES: Returning to a Gold Standard System: Why and How?

  • We pick a limited number of investment ideas, that we intend to hold for a long time.

    FORBES: Disruption At A Company Can Spell Investment Opportunity

  • Players can pick from a number of NBA stars since the game has an NBA license, while create-a-player and create-a-team modes will let gamers build custom rosters.

    CNN: First look: NBA Hoopz

  • For these, pick a pin number that a burglar won't be able to guess easily--avoid using your phone number, street address, or any other number that can be found in the home.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Money | Keeping It Safe | 11/99

  • After you pick a theme, a number of sites will rush mail you a "party" in a box.

    FORBES: Party Planning

  • Although projects that have a positive NPV suggest profitability, you want to pick companies that look beyond a positive number by setting a target profitability.

    FORBES: The Advantages Of Investing In Aggressive Companies

  • It is worth taking a look down the list, as despite the flawed number one pick, it does remind you of a few particularly great endings in games.

    FORBES: Call of Duty: Black Ops Wins Guinness Record for Best Video Game Ending

  • "There is evidence of a muted pick-up in the number of houses bought and sold in the last quarter of 2012, with average prices now at 89% of their pre-recession peak, " said Mr MacRae.

    BBC: Homes covered in snow

  • In this version of the future, which also happens to be touted by Microsoft and Cisco, you will never put down your mouse to pick up your phone to call a lead whose number is listed in your sales force automation application or to upsell a customer whose details are contained in your customer relationship management solution.

    FORBES: Oracle's $2 Billion Bet On The Programmable Network

  • In 1944 Paul Tibbets was told about the Manhattan Project and ordered to pick a crew for what was called special bombing mission number 13.

    ECONOMIST: Thomas Ferebee

  • Such charges were sweeping Silicon Valley at the time after professor Erik Lie of the University of Iowa released a paper in 2005 suggesting that a number of companies may have changed dates on stock options to richly compensate employees (pick a date with the lowest stock price).

    FORBES: Former Broadcom CFO Bill Ruehle's Fight For Justice And His Victory (Book)

  • Pick five numbers between 1 and 59, and a Powerball number from 1 to 35.

    FORBES: California Lottery Believes In Powerball---Despite Odds And Taxes

  • Patients at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor are being advised to keep the number of visitors to a minimum as they could pick up the bug on the wards.

    BBC: Hospital battles against winter bug

  • While Wisconsin Democrats are increasingly comfortable that they will hold on to those Democratic seats that are being challenged in the recall elections, there remains concern that a failure to pick up three seats in the Senate, the number needed to throw control to the Democrats, could have severe, negative implications for the state going forward.

    FORBES: Wisconsin Recall Races No Slam Dunk

  • And I don't want to belabor this, but if you look at the time frame of number of days between the announcement of a Supreme Court pick and the hearings, for the last nine confirmed justices it's been 51 days between the announcement and the beginning of the hearing.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Researchers can only reference a limited number of other papers when they publish, and they pick the most important ones.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Like, someone who's going to pick you off the street is not going to ask you for a social security number and ID.

    NPR: HIV-Positive Gay Latino Spreads Safe Sex Education

  • Though there has been a rise in the number of civil-society groups trying to pick up the pieces, progress is marked in baby-steps.

    ECONOMIST: Social change in Japan

  • When civil-rights groups fretted about the ability of minority voters to get to the local Department of Motor Vehicles to pick up a free state-issued ID card, Governor Haley created an 800 number to offer free rides to anyone who couldn't afford the transportation.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Holder's Racial Politics

  • But maybe the IFA should get a lawyer and a genealogist on the job of increasing the number of players he can pick.

    BBC: Scoring in the NI gene pool

  • Over time, the things you like will accumulate and you can scroll through the list and pick posts to reblog which in turn will be reblogged by other users and generate a number of notes (visible with each post) that show exactly how many people either liked or reblogged the piece.

    FORBES: Tumblr 101: Join The Reblogging Group

  • "You might pick up a call you wouldn't normally, or someone could try to hijack your number and make calls to other people, " says Forrester Research analyst Maribel Lopez.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • " Jonathan Donner, a researcher at Microsoft India who published a paper on "The Rules of Beeping, " said: "Beeping is simple: A person calls a mobile telephone number and then hangs up before the mobile's owner can pick up the call.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Vick, the number one draft pick in 2001, was promoted as the future of the NFL. A talented, running quarterback who would redefine the position.

    NPR: Vick to Plead Guilty to Dogfighting-Related Charges

  • In London, a growing number of groups, including Abundance and Hackney Harvest, are promoting free, pick-it-yourself forays, with maps of fruit trees in the area to get you started.

    BBC: The art of urban foraging

  • This is a generation that rarely sees an invitation in a non-electronic format, always knows the phone number that is calling them before they pick up the line, and is so virtual that spending the morning at a local Starbucks with an iPad is just like being at the office.

    FORBES: Debt Collectors And Generation Facebook

  • "They have an English address, a registered GP, an NHS number - so there is really no way that the hospital will pick up from that, " she said of the lack of checks.

    BBC: Overseas 'health tourists' costing NHS at least ?40m

  • At the moment she's finishing a book for publication in 2012 that debunks myths about teens and social media. (Myth number five: Kids don't care about privacy.) Mark Zuckerberg might want to pick up a copy.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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