Word: florists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, you could go the traditional route and get that special someone a bouquet of flowers from the Brattle Street Florist. Ted Gomatos, who was arranging a lovely bouquet of pink tulips earlier this week, says Harvard romantics often venture into the store--and most don't stick to the traditional long stemmed roses (which are $4 apiece). Instead, he says, flowers of all sorts are popular Valentine's Day gifts, notably tulips, irises and some of the shop's tropical varieties...
...weeded the hospital's garden beds and helped with landscaping to pay $800 she owed after Fallopian-tube surgery. Scott Smith, 29, an uninsured ski instructor, painted the ambulance bays to pay the $5,300 surgical bill he incurred after breaking his leg in a ski accident. A local florist is working off $275 she owed for a colonoscopy by providing a bouquet for the lobby each week. A 39-year-old housewife whose family racked up more than $2,000 in family emergency-room visits paid her final $220 by donating a handmade baby quilt...
Walking past Coady Galgay Florist, "The UnknownArea" of Inman Square gradually appears. Lookinglike it is caught in a time warp, half of InmanSquare has buildings dating from the 1800s andearly 1900s, but new development springing up allover the place also makes the area look extremelymodern...
...Research Group found a widening gap between fees charged at the 300 largest banks (which account for most mergers) and at small banks and credit unions. "You used to be able to walk in without a deposit slip, and they'd just hand you one," says Skip Shipman, a florist in Woodstock, Ga., whose local bank was acquired by McColl in 1996. "Then NationsBank started charging a dollar for a deposit slip." After a wave of protests, the bank halted the practice last year. But complaints persist about other fees and services...
Instead, Jerry says he works at temporaryunderground jobs including lifting boxes anddriving a florist truck...