They are paid to screen managers, to pick the best and to diversify clients' holdings none of which they did properly in this case.

ECONOMIST: The Madoff affair

But if Lee could choose other Marvel characters to give the big-screen treatment, which would he pick?

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Three months ago, Microsoft, which had promised to offer a "choice screen" from which users could pick the browser they preferred, was upbraided by the EU's competition commissioner, who said many users had not been able to view a choice of screen between February 2009 and July 2012.

BBC: Microsoft hit with formal warning on browser choice from EU

Pick a photo from the screen, and you can order a copy from your printer.

FORBES: Hub Dreams

If there are any issues on the bus then the drivers... will be able to pick a picture (from a small screen in front of him) of any pupil who he feels is perhaps misbehaving and send a report through very quickly both to the school and to the local authorities.

BBC: Satellite tracking for school bus

To pick the stocks, I run a quant screen at home and that gives me a list of stocks.

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The much talked about Gesture control offers very marginal benefit on a small screen and as often as not the phone did not pick up the gesture.

FORBES: Samsung's Galaxy S4 Display Catches Up With iPhone Retina

Using a pointer device you can pick any place on a traditional-looking globe and the screen display below spews out facts and figures about the locale.

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The idea of bending over to pick up a virtual tennis racket in front of that 50-inch flat screen in our living room makes perfect sense to us.

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On CBS, on which I watched Wednesday's debate (I try to pick a different network each time), both candidates were shown almost constantly in a split screen.

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