1.   The candidates that the party selected tended, on the whole, to be middle-aged, male, and white.

2.   But if the pattern of recent years prevails, both parties will have selected their nominees in primary elections long before convention time.

3.   For weeks, Republican officials had courted the Independence Party and thought they had a deal giving Prescott the nomination, but the party selected Ms. Carrozza.

4.   Hun Sen denied that his actions amounted to a coup and said the royalist party should select a new leader to replace the prince as co-prime minister.

5.   It also said that his party had selected Lebed to run as its presidential candidate, although the general said he came to that decision alone.

6.   Perot said the party will select its presidential ticket in April in a convention that links cities across the country by satellite.

7.   The party selected the armed forces chief, Gen. Wiranto, as its candidate for vice president.

8.   The party has selected Joe Seremane, a black opposition member of Parliament and a former political prisoner, as its national chairman.

9.   The ruling party selects a finance minister, but he is usually less powerful than the career bureaucrat, nominally under him, who serves as deputy minister.

10.   The verdict of the Keys is largely fixed by the time parties select their nominees.