Word: storefronts
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...economy and is depressing retail sales nationwide. These delays often amount to eight to 12 weeks, an excruciating lag for low-income taxpayers counting on their refund to fix the car or pay the rent. Some such workers, accustomed to quick refunds, have taken out their frustrations on storefront tax preparers like Jesse Ivy of Chicago, who twice has called police to quell near riots. Says Kevin Crosby, who received death threats from a client: "Until now, I never thought of tax filing as being a high-risk business...
...been said that totalitarianism is dead when a shopkeeper hangs and ant-government sign in his storefront window without fear of repercussion. Although Cub has not yet reached that stage, it is rapidly approaching it. Indeed, open criticism of Fidel Castro has now spread beyond the radio stations and restaurants of Miami to the crowded streets of Havana...
Editors assigned the project to Colton and three other underage summer interns, who were instructed to obtain fake IDs from "storefront operations" in order to purchase alcohol, according to Alfred S. Larkin Jr., The Globe's managing editor for administration...
...poor neighborhoods residents can wind up paying even higher fees for financial service because of the shortage of bank branches. The lack of accessibility has forced many inner-city dwellers to turn to storefront check- cashing offices, which can charge as much as 3% of the value of a check. A 1991 Los Angeles city council survey found 133 check-cashing offices -- vs. only 19 bank and savings-and-loan branches -- serving South Central L.A.'s largely minority population of nearly 600,000. Right next door, more affluent (and Anglo) Gardena had 21 bank branches for fewer than...
...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...