1.   At one festival, called Hangandi, women of the Djerma ethnic group compete to become the heaviest.

2.   A product of the fascist era, the Palazzo Della Trienalle represented an attempt to fuse the two leading movements that competed to become the official fascist style.

3.   Dozens of companies are now competing to become to the Web what A.C. Nielsen and its ratings are to television.

4.   Players compete to become a contestant in three rounds.

5.   The movie and the television series are set in a world where human Pokemon trainers compete to become top Pokemon masters.

6.   Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Wieland Lafferentz, also great-grand children of Wagner, also are competing to become director.

7.   San Antonio and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina are also competing to become the U.S. bid representative.

8.   The cities of Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Hamburg and possibly Berlin will compete to become the single German candidate.

9.   Two other great-grandchildren of the composer also are competing to become director.