21.   His team won a trip to Austin, Texas, in August for the national finals at the convention of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

22.   Last year he lost to Cross in the national finals, beat him out in the World Team Trials and won another world title.

23.   National finals are on Sunday.

24.   Schumacher won the Kellogg competition and took his plan to Austin, Tex., in May for national finals.

25.   The Professional Riders Cowboy Association, which recently had its national finals, is composed of full-time rodeo riders.

26.   With that word, she clinched first place in a Texas regional spelling bee that gave her a berth here at the national finals.

27.   Critics said youngsters there had as much as a six-month head start to prepare for the national finals.

28.   Scripps Howard, the newspaper group based in Cincinnati, coordinates the national finals and produces the word lists and study materials.