21.   Also, Will Howard, vice president and managing director at Western in Chicago, was named executive vice president and managing director for the Central region.

22.   Danyo Credit Cooperative of Hyogo Prefecture will take over the operations of two financially troubled thrifts in the central Japan region, the Ministry of Finance said.

23.   Here, chef Satkoff concentrates on the dishes of the central Mexican regions, such as Oaxaca, Jalisco, and Chiapas.

24.   Last April, at the suggestion of a Peruvian friend, I visited the lovely colonial town of Ayacucho, in the central Andean region of Peru.

25.   Montepulciano, the grape, is cultivated widely in Italy, mostly in the east from the central Marches region south through Abruzzi to Apulia.

26.   New England and the central region of the United States showed the most significant increase in travel.

27.   Part of the Special Forces mission was to recruit and train soldiers from the Montagnard villages that dotted the mountainous central regions of South Vietnam.

28.   Prince Abdul Aziz participates in the annual celebration of Arda, a traditional sword dance of the central Arabian region of Najd.

29.   Pockets of poverty around the state endure, particularly in mountainous central regions once heavily dependent for employment upon the coal industry, now highly mechanized and more efficient.

30.   Prince Abdul Aziz stirs his tea while watching the annual celebration of Arda, a traditional sword dance of the central Arabian region of Najd.