Industrial policy cannot pick winners, but it must be quick to shed losers.

产业政策不可能选出胜利者，但是它会很快淘汰失败者。

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People like to pick winners.

人们愿意选择优胜者。

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Simple questions help investors pick winners.

简单的问题使投资者挑选成功者。

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Fans fill out brackets to pick the winners in the four 16-team regions of the country.

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I'm not going to be thinking I'm clever, and can pick winners and losers, I'm just betting on the market as a whole.

我觉得我不聪明不知道，那只股好哪只股差，我就看市场行情整体是好是坏。

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But what it is quite clear is that it left the hands of government the ability to pick winners and losers and that is a very dangerous power.

但显而易见的是,政府有生杀大权,掌握公司的命运,这是非常危险的权。

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So how does he respond to the charge of allowing the chancellor to "pick winners"?

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Operators also help to pick winners by putting their marketing muscle behind certain devices.

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"Asian governments are realizing that you can't pick winners, " says the World Bank's Husain.

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