Rosie spent life in a custom ranch house in California's wine country and exercised in an airy, sunlit building on an earthen floor covered with clean hulls of rice.

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Revenge killings used to be the norm throughout the Arabian peninsula, but now that petrodollars have brought a more ordered way of life, the custom has largely died out in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

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Non-life insurers covet the custom of large corporations.

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For all the progress humankind has made in the last century, when it comes to assessing risk, we go about our business with thinking apparatus still largely custom-made for Stone Age life on the African savannah.

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It is an important hereditary custom drawn from the rice culture that pervaded daily life in the countryside.

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Then, after 12 weeks' of hammering and chiselling, Kayes will witness Hatton contest the fight of his life before watching him slip into the layabout routine which has become his custom.

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After experimenting with more than a dozen different formulations, drying them with custom-made machinery and heating them in ovens to test shelf life, Nektar hit upon a successful recipe that mixes insulin with glycine (an amino acid), citrate (the salt of an organic acid found in humans) and mannitol (a sugar used in intravenous products).

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The focal point of the night was the custom etched PlayStation 3 consoles that were handed out to the top real-life vehicles at the show by Yamauchi, himself.

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As guests of the custom-tour organizer Shakti Himalaya, we are ensconced in the heart of village life but with plumbing, (occasional) hot water, and (balky) electricity.

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According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

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