11.   It has happened that way for the last several conventions.

12.   It has been a dozen years since then-President Reagan addressed the last Phoenix NRA convention.

13.   Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, whose father was mayor during the last convention here, told the delegates how times had changed.

14.   So is this the last convention hurrah?

15.   That election came after the last convention and was the first conducted under a court order requiring adoption of democratic procedures to purge the union of corruption.

16.   The annual ceremony at the National Hobo Cemetery honors hobos who have died since the last convention.

17.   These days general election campaigns really begin the day after the last convention, not on Labor Day.

18.   This has been the practice of the Democratic Party, which excluded one of its most popular leaders, Gov. Bob Casey, from its last convention.

19.   This is another volley in the religious war theocrat-in-waiting Pat Buchanan declared at the last Republican convention.

20.   Police responded with undisguised hostility to the last gay convention in Puerto Rico, two years ago.