Word: moms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What seems to satisfy mom-and-pop customers most is a quality that the chains, with their reliance on self-service, rarely provide: the warm ambiance of the hometown library. Buyers prefer to talk to booksellers, not to supermarket-style check-out clerks. They like to attend readings by authors or slip off their shoes in a homey shop, settle into an armchair and browse for an hour. Many of these stores provide coffee and other refreshments; Atlanta's Oxford Books (115,000 titles) has a lunch counter and stays open until 2 a.m. on weekends. Says owner Rupert LeCraw...
...this was not the time to get overly complicated about the whole affair. I dumped all of my clothes in a washer, smacked in 75 cents, and washed cold. Mom had mentioned that cold washing prevents color bleeding...
...Mom, you're great, I thought, and even though I'm a laundry ignoramus right now, I appreciate all those years you did my laundry...
...mom doesn't come home and say, `Hi sweetie, how was your day,' but it's no big deal because they're always somewhere around," Laszlo Nagy says...
...food is bad I run upstairs and ask my mom to cook me something good," Antonia Nagy says. And her brother adds, "I mean, how many chickwiches...