11.   Former President Bush will be at the convention but has decided not to take a speaking slot.

12.   Gov. Mario Cuomo, seeking to buttress his black support, gave Sharpton a prime speaking slot at the state convention.

13.   He did not get either the speaking slot at the convention or the skybox at the Staples Center that he had asked for.

14.   In a sign of his approval, Herbert A. Allen gave Mr. Schmitt a coveted speaking slot at his recent annual media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.

15.   In return, Democratic leaders restored her speaking slot for this Thursday and canceled their threats to consider ousting her as the highest ranking woman in the Democratic Party.

16.   Joe Byrd, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, was given a speaking slot at the dinner hour, but before prime time.

17.   Later, at the Republican National Convention, Bush aides kept anti-abortion activists and advocates of closer church-state ties out of prominent speaking slots.

18.   Meanwhile, a potential Gore rival, House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt of Missouri, gets an afternoon speaking slot that will likely not be remembered.

19.   Minor speaking slots have been awarded to Frost, Mauro and Senate candidate Victor Morales.

20.   Moreover, two other outspoken Bush rivals who focused significantly on antiabortion matters, Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer, have not yet been promised speaking slots.