Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes consumers encounter sales clerks who cannot find the "on" button on electronic equipment they are selling. A clerk handling vacuum cleaners in a department store confesses to a customer, "I don't know a damn thing about these." Over in the shoe department, clerks nowadays may simply dump boxes at customers' feet rather than helping them with the merchandise...
...armored cars and off-duty policemen to escort them and their money to hotels. When a Cuban-born woman called from Miami to ask her Panamanian lawyer for help in making a deposit, he assumed she needed legal advice. What she really wanted was assistance in lugging dozens of shoe boxes filled with small- denomination bills to the bank...
...Then Donnie died," says Chris Rockins, Rogers' best friend and replacement at free safety. "Hanford settled down, became quiet and purposeful ((and all-Pro)). We all did. Some put Donnie's number, 20, on a wristband, others on a shoe or a glove. But we all drew strength in our own way, came together and maybe just grew up. His picture is in the lounge, and sometimes I come in and catch guys just looking...
Already, Boston has seen the removal of one shoe advertisement that shows a dead woman next to a pair of shoes. The caption reads "We killed for these." Similarly, some television stations have been convinced to set up a board that screens advertisements for sexism...
...million Canadians had had their wallets lifted -- credit cards, IDs and all. Revenue Minister Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...