"Asian governments are realizing that you can't pick winners, " says the World Bank's Husain.
"We shouldn't call winners or losers immediately after a debate, " said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Still other rivalries don't have clear winners--at least as far as income is concerned.
There, the big lesson of history is that they don't produce many winners.
Government has a role in regulating, but its role shouldn't include picking the winners and losers.
It hasn't a chance unless winners and losers alike today agree that there's got to be a better way.
Given my record with the Oscar pool, I still won't have predicted many winners, probably, but I'll get Reese Witherspoon right.
We can't know who the winners from Asia-Pacific's inevitable rebound will be, but surely legitimacy of authority will matter in that competition.
He quizzes them about the forthcoming elections and the winners get yellow T-shirts as prizes.
By state law, Florida Lottery winners can't remain anonymous, according to the lottery.
Gulbis, one of the top talents in the sport and a man finally on the rise after a long stretch of poor results, kept attacking Monfils, but couldn't find enough openings for winners.
In between their play-off appearances, United finished bottom of the league in 1996 - but stayed up because Conference winners Stevenage hadn't upgraded their ground to the required standards.
Details on the promotion haven't been announced yet, but winners would presumably be outfit with enough technology to recreate the Georgia Institute of Technology's model on a real power bill.
It would be reductive to suggest that these displays of patriotism are simply the response of a small country that just doesn't crank out that many Oscar winners or Olympic golds.
Oklahoma's Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission, which regulates bars, said in July that even though gambling is totally prohibited in Oklahoma, Murdock's business was perfectly legit--as long as no prizes, not even a trophy or a T shirt, were awarded to winners.
And they're probably going to have more losers than winners and that isn't exactly a formula for success.
In terms of the winners - I don't think we'll see any super-fast times, but it's hard to look beyond Martin Lel again.
But Jobs hasn't been afraid to mess with his winners, replacing the hot-selling iPod Mini with the iPod Nano in September 2005, less than two years after Apple introduced the Mini.
The FCC's blind bidding process means the public won't know the auction's winner or winners until February or March.
The top three winners will receive Forbes fleeces, T-shirts and hats.
Most footraces, including the ING New York Marathon, don't test amateurs, including age-group winners, unless they finish at or near the top of the overall field.
So what you're trying to do there is make sure that you are placing your bets on your most likely winners and that you don't waste precious resources.
Regardless of who wins the May 7 special election -- and, again, Sanford shouldn't be counted out -- the real winners are already the residents of the coastal South Carolina.
The dust-up over the New York Times' Tesla Model S review may have left no real winners, but that doesn't preclude at least trying to reach the truth.
To replicate Colby's results you'd have to rebalance the portfolio regularly, so that consistent winners like the Brazil Index don't grow to dominate the fund.
"There are probably going to be two winners here, because I don't see that big of a thread between any of the candidates, " said Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party.
The Poetry House is part of the university's School of English whose staff include poets Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie, Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford and John Burnside, amongst them winners of the Whitbread Prize, the T.
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