31.   Reading computer printouts on the hitting patterns of an opposing team and the specific tendencies of each player has become a daily ritual for the Mets catcher.

32.   Sanders is the outfielder least interested in the baseball strike, and his daily ritual has been to beg Seifert for the football.

33.   So she began a daily ritual of calling the stores to check for new shipments.

34.   Street demonstrations are a daily ritual in Jakarta, but the unrest has picked up markedly since an international military force arrived in East Timor earlier this week.

35.   The best routine we have is the daily ritual of sharing with others around the table at home.

36.   The daily dressing ritual for Armstrong and his teammates during the three-week Tour now includes depositing a tiny two-way radio in a back jersey pocket.

37.   The daily ritual of household cleanliness, she maintains, cuts deeper than a personal desire for sparkling stovetops and freshly made beds that could bounce quarters.

38.   The Greenes also have important daily rituals.

39.   The movie, opening Wednesday at the Film Forum in Manhattan, presents a pointedly prosaic portrait of the artist as an older single man going through daily rituals.

40.   The reggae bands were warming up on Sunday evening for their daily ritual of entertaining the American tourists who line the beaches of this Caribbean island.