51.   Boots of all styles already parade about local stores, tempting summer-weary people who cannot wait for a break from the heat.

52.   Brown noted that he tried to exchange a Christmas necktie at a local store and was foiled by lack of a Texas license.

53.   But in the world after Fairway, local stores are becoming better, cleaner and cheaper to win back shoppers.

54.   But many people favor the instant soup and noodles, the canned salsa and tuna fish available in local stores.

55.   But there are two local stores that do offer a good selection.

56.   But they have no masks, and neither do local surplus stores.

57.   But, like their counterparts nationwide, local stores are offering big discounts to lure customers, which will hurt the bottom line.

58.   Buying a gun is little harder than signing up at the local Blockbuster video store.

59.   Capt. Charles Fannon said that an undercover officer has visited local stores and bought some of the solvents.

60.   Chay said his company was making inroads into the Los Angeles market and that the local stores were just about breaking even.