Word: pet
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Despite all the stores they displaced, the big boxes have also indirectly helped such shops as Beverly's Pet Center thrive. Outlays of billions of dollars for advertising and marketing have bolstered not only the chain brands but also demand for everything from gourmet coffee to home-improvement projects...
...pet-shop business, firms like Petco helped spark a boom in part by changing people's conception of smelly, helter-skelter pet stores, according to Marshall Meyers, executive vice president of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. After folks found that they adored their new cockatiel, they started going to local shops for accessories unavailable at the chains, he says. The hostility between the independents and the chains has abated somewhat, replaced by a realization that David and Goliath can help each other. Want a hedgehog? You'll have to visit a local pet shop--the big chains haven...
...Holden accused Gekas of voting to eliminate Social Security cost-of-living increases, and the senior incumbent dismissed the vote as having occurred "back when Julius Caesar was in command." (Actually it was Ronald Reagan.) But Gekas, a former prosecutor, showed his vigor in the face-off, interjecting his pet themes - like his "perfect" 14-out-of-14 vote rating from the Farm Bureau...
...heroine, she says, is just "an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances who acts in a way that is totally unconventional." This is familiar territory for Ramsay. In Ratcatcher, set in a grim 1970s Glasgow housing project during a refuse collectors' strike, a young boy tries to send his pet mouse into outer space, tied to a balloon. Ramsay came late to that kind of weirdness. Raised in a working class district of Glasgow, she was weaned on nothing more unconventional than Douglas Sirk and Bette Davis movies. She stumbled into filmmaking on a whim. The strength of her still photographs...
...migraines went away. People who couldn’t speak in class were able to speak. Those with phobias were no longer afraid to fly, or to ride an elevator, or to pet a dog,” Powell said...