21.   After they snared him, they give him a drink laced with drugs and put a pair of athletic shoes on his feet.

22.   Brian had expensive tastes in sunglasses and athletic shoes.

23.   But how those sneakers got there is a dirty little secret in the billion-dollar athletic shoe industry.

24.   But eventually they gave way to lucrative displays for large Western and Russian companies selling everything from cigarettes and coffee to athletic shoes and computers.

25.   But there was no physical evidence tying Castillo to the liquor store crime, and the footprints were from a common brand of athletic shoe.

26.   But we have decided in our family that singling out Nike, the world leader in athletic shoes, is a proper thing to do.

27.   But with the cost of replacing athletic shoes, you may have saved us all some money today.

28.   Companies that make soft drinks, athletic shoes, fast food and other consumer products have built their marketing plans around sports stars.

29.   Consumer unhappiness with athletic shoes and clothing, soft drinks, and canned and packaged foods led the decline.

30.   Company touts a new shoe technology that will help it through the continuing glut on the athletic shoe market.