21.   Beginning as a local custom, awaiting Beaujolais nouveau evolved into a romance, then into a clever marketing ploy and, finally, into big business.

22.   Best to think of it as an odd little local custom, perhaps along the lines of inviting your crazy Uncle Torvald down from the attic every Thanksgiving.

23.   A great deal of attention is paid to local customs, like food tastes.

24.   A local custom is to adorn yards or home-fronts with hand-painted boards cut to resemble cows, horses or birds.

25.   Abiding by the local custom, Summers presented the village chief with two bottles of liquor.

26.   According to local custom, a married Indian man cannot accept the position of deacon without the consent of his wife.

27.   After only two days in the Olympic city, I surrendered yesterday to local custom.

28.   But crossing in the middle of the block is simply a colorful local custom.

29.   But local custom did not insist she wear a scarf or veil, although some women in her family chose to.

30.   But succeeding south of the border means adapting to local customs, as well as riding out upheavals in local economies.