The few city centre shopkeepers that had bothered to open waited forlornly for customers. |
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Women also frequently work in family businesses as shopkeepers and seamstresses. |
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Manufacturers, shopkeepers, and vendors rounded up their prices to an even number. |
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The dance critics may be undecided, but the hoteliers and shopkeepers of the capital salute her. |
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Why were the Indian shopkeepers driven out when now there are no shops at all? |
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Other traders and the shopkeepers whose overheads are very high can tell similar stories. |
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The shopkeepers were not just dealers but they were collectors of good books. |
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In the meantime, as part of a protest, shopkeepers could refuse to pay their business rates. |
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You see, in most other parts of the country, shopkeepers install bells on the doors of their shops. |
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Bolton shopkeepers and businesses have spent a lot of time and money to encourage visitors to their town. |
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They are asking the public and shopkeepers to be aware of people trying to change large numbers of coins into notes. |
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Even vegetable shopkeepers who used cycles to go to market found the mopeds a better means to carry loads. |
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However, it is also undeniable that the small shopkeepers of Swindon are a vital part of the the town. |
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Two shopkeepers who saw the attack said the two soldiers killed had their throats slit after being ambushed in traffic. |
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Last week's riot and the fear of further unrest has caused shopkeepers to shield their windows. |
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Closing lottery outlets is unfair to the players, unfair to the shopkeepers and financially unwarranted. |
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The shopkeepers also say the buildings have become easier targets for break-ins and vandalism. |
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There was a time when some of the shopkeepers made a living, and some bought the premises they traded in. |
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He found Vandemonians to be men who believed they had no equal even though they were only paltry shopkeepers. |
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His fiercely nonconformist parents, small shopkeepers, brutally opposed and curbed his bent for painting. |
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Instantly shopkeepers yanked corrugated metal doors down over their storefronts. |
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However, some shopkeepers pounce on me and demand everything but a strip-search. |
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We are asking parents to watch out for these toys and shopkeepers to take them off sale. |
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Bar owners, hoteliers, shopkeepers and taxi drivers intend to make hay while the sun shines. |
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At the base there was the mass of peddlers, hawkers, hucksters, at best shopkeepers. |
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Many shopkeepers in the immediate area of the excavations and road closures feared their businesses were suffering as a result. |
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Factories are idle, and small shopkeepers have been squeezed out of business. |
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Local authorities should concentrate on providing services to the public not persecuting honest shopkeepers. |
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The shopkeepers support faith-based reforms as one promising type of privatization. |
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Each is accompanied by the author's informative commentary which ranges from Roman roads to last century's shopkeepers. |
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The national shopkeepers federation acknowledged that it had issued a communique urging its members not to accept debit cards. |
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Police are warning shopkeepers they could face prosecution for selling cigarette lighters which also contain a hidden flick knife. |
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On the empty streets of the Old City, some of the shopkeepers spend the daylight hours playing backgammon and drinking glasses of Arabic coffee. |
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Police officers, hoteliers, shopkeepers and publicans are also among those asked to brush up on their knowledge of Scotland's most famous poet. |
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Other ideas could see shopkeepers dress up in Victorian clothes for the day, on a similar style to Pickwick Night. |
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Markets are seen as a very positive step in bringing people in, and I hope the traders and local shopkeepers do well out of it. |
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The accused used to erase the marks and words from the stamps and sold them to the shopkeepers or back to the post offices. |
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One thinks of the shopkeepers and craftsmen in and around the Agora with whom Socrates passed the time of day. |
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The move comes as many shopkeepers in the area are complaining that traffic jams and the lack of parking spaces are driving customers away. |
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Statistics show the four-story mall accommodates a total of 11 shops and some 120 shopkeepers. |
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He would see himself mouth angry words back at the idling grinning shopkeepers, that would wipe away for ever the pasty smile off their faces. |
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This will lead to loss of trade to the shopkeepers who are all having a hard enough time to make ends meet as it is. |
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Meanwhile, shopkeepers, market stall holders and restaurateurs are losing money. |
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Two well-known shopkeepers in Kirkby Lonsdale have announced their intention to retire from their traditional village shop. |
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Their next stage is to interview shopkeepers or anybody involved in the retail industry. |
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But the lingua franca was the language of money as tourists picked up souvenirs and shopkeepers counted their cash. |
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Since many local shopkeepers think they will scare away customers if hired, they are cut off even from low-level jobs. |
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The shopkeepers also downed their shutters and the other establishments also decided to call it a day. |
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The counterfeits were discovered when the shopkeepers tried paying their takings into the bank. |
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Meanwhile angry shopkeepers in Blackfen Road say takings are down by more than half. |
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But if they do catch him I think he should be made an example of and maybe fewer shopkeepers will feel the need to close. |
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The figures also reveal farmers, bosses, shopkeepers, publicans and builders top the list of tax dodgers. |
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They go on to become anti-social scallywags who spend their evenings harassing local shopkeepers, kicking in bus stops and mugging other kids. |
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He's only scamming innocent shopkeepers to make enough money to pay off his father's debts. |
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They included unemployed architects and managers as much as bankrupt shopkeepers or workers laid off. |
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Many joined shopkeepers in wearing period costumes, including authentic make up and seamed stockings. |
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One of her first appeals will be to have the traditional tidy-up done daily by shopkeepers in front of their own premises. |
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But by this time shopkeepers and fellow street sellers had gathered around, so the group left. |
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They will have a regular beat and get to know such people as head teachers and shopkeepers. |
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This follows years of complaints from small shopkeepers and liberal commentators who bemoan supermarket's retail dominance. |
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They were all shopkeepers, tradesmen, workers, and such, not leading men of Boston. |
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Plans to lease five rooms in the old town hall to traders have drawn fierce reaction from shopkeepers. |
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The procession is a boon for shopkeepers in the area, especially restaurateurs. |
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During the day, shopkeepers and businesses hang their laundry out to dry in the parking spaces. |
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With the support of the sarpanches of the village panchayats these children have passed a directive that shopkeepers who sell gutka to children will be fined heavily. |
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If we cannot stop the dills from throwing away lit cigarettes, we could at least save the occasional fire by asking the shopkeepers to not stock magnifying glasses as toys. |
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No matter how many millions of pounds are spent on Blackburn town centre the damage cannot be undone and the shopkeepers are paying the price in loss of trade. |
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Flaubert's most damning irony consists in his maintaining that an entire nation of shopkeepers can be reduced to the complacent murmur and bombination of a single voice. |
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Neither does it permit gay employers or shopkeepers to discriminate against straights, or adulterers or swingers to discriminate against monogamists. |
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The shopkeepers would resort to fasts, protest demonstrations and gheraos. |
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But proposals to ban daytime deliveries on some of Kendal's shopping streets have been greeted with outrage by shopkeepers, who fear they could be forced out of business. |
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He should realise that promises of jam tomorrow are not helping shopkeepers in his area to swallow difficulties forced on them by the loss of parking spaces. |
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Britain is no longer a nation of shopkeepers but a nation of hairdressers and beauticians, according to a report from the Work Foundation, a leading think tank. |
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The idea was widely condemned by shopkeepers and hoteliers in Capri. |
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What was it Napoleon said about the British being a nation of shopkeepers? |
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A teenage tearaway who imposed a four-year reign of terror over Chessington shopkeepers has been banned from entering Hook Parade or Kingston town centre. |
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How does violent crime affect the shopkeepers who rely on tourists for a livelihood? |
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Long before the supermarkets took hold, the days that led up to Christmas some 50 years ago were very busy times for the shopkeepers in all towns. |
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Colchester police have launched a new tough approach on people begging in the town, which a spokesman said should solve the problem faced by shopkeepers. |
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The capital, Tripoli, is a pan-African city of Italianate squares and Arab souks where visitors can wander without being hassled by touts or pushy shopkeepers. |
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The shopkeepers and aristocrats, peasants and military grandees, nuns and nudes all share an exaggerated pudginess that gives them a pleasant comic quality. |
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The widespread diffusion of texts exploded not only among nobles and merchants but also among artisans, shopkeepers, workers, and even, on occasion, peasants and millers. |
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Many account holders are likely to be shopkeepers, businessmen, farmers or professionals who may have spent most of the hidden money on holidays or university fees. |
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Baseball clubs followed similar patterns, though most often were comprised of skilled craftsmen like carpenters and shipbuilders, clerks, and shopkeepers. |
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Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. |
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Up and down the country, arts faculties swarm with undergraduates pretending to be overeducated comedians pretending to be in-bred shopkeepers with little piggy noses. |
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Others will be taxi drivers, students, shopkeepers or their sons. |
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Under the scheme, shopkeepers and staff are issued with two-way radios that enable them to track suspects around the town alerting the police to potential criminals. |
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Booze bosses last night insisted they had lost cash after Jamieson last week urged shopkeepers to boycott Buckie. |
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Lower status was attributed to farmers, craft and tradesmen, shopkeepers, and government bureaucrats. |
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This class would include artisans, small traders, shopkeepers, and small farm owners. |
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The master then dyed or printed the grey cloth, and took it to shopkeepers. |
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We are no longer a nation of shopkeepers but a nation of crimpers according to new research. |
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By 1750, a variety of artisans, shopkeepers, and merchants provided services to the growing farming population. |
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South African shopkeepers complain that Somalians offer cheaper goods and as a result drive them out of business. |
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I would advise shopkeepers not to accept a cheque without the cheque card or another form of identification. |
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Tired of complaints from tourists about the main street looking like Main Street USA, the local council gave grants to shopkeepers to install 'olde Irish' shopfronts instead. |
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The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France in 1685 resulted in the immigration of many French Huguenots, many of whom were shopkeepers or scientists. |
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Among the popular sweets are baklava, kunafeh, barbousa and qatayef, but mamool is particularly popular among the Emiratis this eid, shopkeepers said. |
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Extra police and paramilitary forces were rushed to the area as shopkeepers around HyderabadA's historic Charminar monument downed shutters for fear of more violence. |
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