11.   And with the Republican convention taking place in San Diego in August, national attention could be focused on the border at a crucial moment in the campaign.

12.   Anyone who paid even marginal attention to the Republican convention came away with a clear idea of what Bush plans to do if elected.

13.   As I started to say before I rudely interrupted myself way back in the second paragraph, I love Republican conventions.

14.   As it turned out, the Republican convention nominated Wendell Willkie, a former utility executive, for president.

15.   As is the tradition, Gore has remained largely out of sight during the Republican convention, vacationing with his family in North Carolina.

16.   As he did in recent interviews, Clinton also made it clear that Republican convention oratory about an era of accidental and purposeless prosperity had nettled him mightily.

17.   As this Republican convention illustrated more clearly than any other to date, political parties are in step with the rest of the branding-crazed American corporate culture.

18.   At the Republican convention in Philadelphia, the Democrats had a similar squad, but their members were sometimes harder to spot.

19.   At the Republican national convention that year, Tuttle and Wisdom each led pro-Eisenhower delegations.

20.   At the Republican convention, Bob Dole said what focus groups had told him would find favor.