1.   Analysts did predict that events in Yugoslavia could rate daily mention on the campaign trail for as long as events there remain in the news.

2.   Even parking lots rate a mention in the guidebooks.

3.   Most other races rating a mention by those following the House battle, including partisan observers and the political newsletter Texas Weekly, have Democratic incumbents.

4.   Not all the hotels I have booked into without reservations rated mention in guidebooks.

5.   The disease does not even rate a mention in the annual report.

6.   The malpractice changes rated scant mention during more than five hours of acrimonious House debate on the Medicare overhaul last week.

7.   They are not people, only pictures of people, and so may barely rate mention as collateral damage in the wreckage that has claimed so many lives.

8.   Cosmonaut Vladimir Titov is a member of the shuttle crew, a fact that barely rates a mention in most newspaper stories.

9.   The three, who have rated little mention in most news accounts, have Puerto Rican roots and have held elective office.

10.   They even rated brief mentions on the front of the Financial Times.