31.   The announcements were part of an annual rite, as Tony losers realized they would have little fodder for marketing or advertising campaigns.

32.   The Cubs, Giants and Athletics are longtime participants in the annual rites.

33.   The episode has become an annual rite of spring.

34.   The vendors are the economic engine of the annual rite.

35.   Then again, speculating on the demise of the Jazz has been an annual rite for the last five years.

36.   This means the annual rite of off-season construction probably will go on.

37.   Two decades before this group of Yankees made the postseason an annual rite, if not right, another group of Yankees played in three successive World Series.

38.   Waterproofing your deck should become an annual rite of spring to protect against wood rot, splintering and warping.

39.   Welcome to the NFL draft, where things rarely are as good or bad as they appear, and paralysis by overanalysis is an annual rite.

40.   While not precisely an annual rite, demonstrations at Columbia are certainly a hardy perennial, passed immutably from one generation to the next.