Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lulling you before he sets off a firecracker -- Whango! -- right in your ear. This time his explosive is one of them mysterious strangers who sneaks into Castle Rock, Maine, scene of two other King features, Cujo and The Dead Zone. This stranger is called Leland Gaunt, and he's proprietor of the new Needful Things curiosity shop. First customer: 11-year-old Brian Rusk. The item: an autographed Sandy Koufax baseball card. The price: his soul. Whango...
Business has also been slow for Marc Johnson, proprietor of Mud Man, a craft shop specializing in "interplanetary pottery...
...years ago, proprietor Tracy Parsons, 28, left Los Angeles' dog-eat-dog garment industry to start a home-delivery bakery for puppies. Then she invested $5,000 of her savings, persuaded a bank to back her and set up shop on ritzy Beverly Drive. Parsons has added a mail-order business supplying pet owners as distant as New York, and hopes eventually to franchise the business. "But," says she, "I don't want to expand too fast, because service is the most important thing...
...considering a national tort-reform law aimed at restricting frivolous litigation. There is surely something new in the American air that inspired the estate of Christopher Duffy of Framingham, Mass., who stole a car from a parking lot and got killed in a subsequent accident, to sue the proprietor of the lot for failing to prevent auto thefts. The same ingredient in the Zeitgeist must have affected the Philadelphia jury described by journalist Walter Olson in a new book, The Litigation Explosion. The jury awarded $986,000 in 1986 to Judith Haimes, a psychic who was said...
...metropolises fascinate each other, and none chart the differences more minutely than the hardy group of a dozen or so restaurateurs who operate establishments in both Los Angeles and New York City. "Menus are different, taste buds are different on the two coasts," observes Adam Tihany, a proprietor of the Italian bistro Remi, which serves in midtown Manhattan and Santa Monica. Almost any other method of expansion would be simpler. But some people bitten by the restaurant bug just cannot resist trying to conquer the two towns...