Word: madam
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...many reasons customers like Kaur prefer their kiryana shops: they deliver for free, even for small orders; they allow regular customers credit; and they are close by and personal. "He knows us so well," she says. "When my daughter went to America to study, he called to ask, 'Madam, is your daughter not home? You haven't been ordering cheese singles!' If I run out of shampoo or detergent, I can just phone him, and he'll send a boy with the stuff, free of charge...
...many people get away with calling the Central Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar, at least not when they're speaking to a room packed with dozens of national media outlets. And yet that is exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did on Thursday. "Madam Speaker, just to be clear," stuttered a reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference, "you're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2002?" "Yes," Pelosi declared definitively, "misleading the Congress of the United States...
Vitter, Sen. David • airport tantrum is thrown by, leading to much reporting on the story that invariably includes unwelcomed-by reminder of the inclusion of the name of on phone records of the "D.C. Madam...
Spears, Britney •earning potential of as a prostitute is assessed by Spitzer madam Kristin Davis...
...plans she has for the future. Rather than centering on clichéd cultural conflicts, the movie focuses on Mr. Shi as he copes with generational differences. He soon becomes friends with an elderly woman from Iran whom he meets on daily visits to a park. “Madam,” as he calls her, speaks English as well—or, rather, as poorly—as he does, and the pair communicates through broken English, gestures, and their native languages. They form a close bond and anxiously wait each morning for their daily conversations. But when...