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...denying policies on the basis of occupation, marital status and neighborhood. In California, National Gay Rights Advocates has filed a $10 million sex-discrimination suit against Great Republic Life Insurance, charging that the company has decided to refuse coverage to unmarried males working in such occupations as antiques dealer, florist and consultant...
Smaller businesses, like a little Pennsylvanian florist shop, were reprimanded and threatened with fines for donating smaller amounts to the restoration. Iaccoca claimed that the smaller businesses that were trying to raise funds were damaging his fundraising efforts by using the same logo that he was charging other companies millions of dollars...
...stemmed from its rush to conquer great distances, at first with the pony express and clipper ships, later with microwaves and satellites. In the consumer marketplace, speediness became an ever stronger selling point. The first mass-marketed instant coffee, the G. Washington brand, appeared in 1909. The next year Florist's Transworld Delivery started sending flowers by wire. The spirit of hustle permeated pop culture, from the World War II-era song lyric, "Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry," to the Road Runner cartoon character who always leaves Wile E. Coyote in the dust...
...warm weather, which has had thousands of potential buyers browsing the stores of Cambridge, has led especially to an increase in "impulse" sales, according to John B. Zedios of the Brattle Square Florist shop. He said, "warm weather gets the people inspired and flowers are supposed to be inspirational." Daffodils and tulips are also the store's best selling buds...
...growth in the number of customers who buy flowers frequently has given rise to a new type of store. So-called stem or bucket shops let the buyer be the florist. Each fresh-cut variety is put in a vase, and customers are left to create their own arrangements. Florist Gwen Moore has opened two bucket shops called the Blossom Broker in suburban Denver. Says she: "People can walk right into the cooler and do their own thing...