21.  He owes the mayor and the city a serious dialogue on the interwoven needs of the state and its metropolis, not just an overdue courtesy call.

22.  He paid a courtesy call to Betsie Verwoerd, the widow of Hendrik Verwoerd, the main designer of apartheid.

23.  Hours before the Massachusetts governor placed a courtesy call to Kerry to inform him of his decision, Kerry was behaving as though the fight was already joined.

24.  In an interview after the hearing, Glaser said his call to Maritz was merely a courtesy call.

25.  Instead, she said, it received a courtesy call from the local marshal who handed out a standard packet explaining precautions to take in an emergency.

26.  It turned out to be something other than a simple courtesy call.

27.  It was only a courtesy call -- a few minutes with Stephen Merrill, governor to governor -- and yet there was a portentous air to it all.

28.  Its corporate parent, Icon CMT, which once dreamed of fast profits in Web magazines, closed it last March without so much as a courtesy call.

29.  Kerry encountered Weld as he was making courtesy calls on Capitol Hill Thursday and informed him of the development.

30.  My name is Lisa, and this is a courtesy call on behalf of Tall Tree Greengrowers.