Word: laundromat
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...We’ve been turning it over like a Laundromat just so the guys who are playing No. 2 and 3 don’t get their confidence shattered,” Fish explained. “When the confidence is there, you let them go [to the higher positions]. Its just that close [up and down the lineup...
...reaching effects. "Most day-care centers require parents to provide their own," she says. And without day care, parents can't look for work or go to school. Cloth diapers don't help, because low-income families tend not to have washing machines or cars to get to the Laundromat. Moreover, she knew that babies who sit longer in their own waste get more diaper rashes and cry more. And she'd read the studies showing that more crying leads to more physical abuse...
...crowded bar in Wicker Park, drawing caricatures on a napkin of everybody in there. Which would usually piss me off a little: oh look how alternative I am, I’m Zach Braff’s next movie girlfriend, I’m that girl at the laundromat who dances alone with headphones on to music nobody can hear. But for whatever reason it doesn’t bother me, her drawing. It gets me going, like I’ve found a friend or something...
...attempting to deconstruct the mystery behind the fickleness of French, I came to appreciate Paris not an aesthetic marvel better off without its inhabitants but as a physical manifestation of French culture itself. Paris is the French.Various aspects of Parisian life continue to baffle me (namely the absurd Laundromat prices and taxing public library system.) But one’s first macaron à la rose at Pierre Hermé, a sunny afternoon at Sainte Chapelle, or the escargot at Robert et Louise in the Marais are absolutely and singularly French. And I’m happy to sit back...
...will be different because Grameen employees themselves are making the loans, not training an American bank to do it. In New York City, Shah Newaz, who started working for Grameen in 1982, hands out checks to borrowers at Grameen America headquarters - a sparsely furnished one-room office above a laundromat. In Omaha, Habib Chowdhury, who has worked for Grameen since 1985 and is a veteran of its Kosovo start-up, has found more than 250 borrowers since June and has already lent $378,000, mostly to Mexican immigrants stocking up on inventory for small businesses selling things like cosmetics, clothing...