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Cohen, a pawn-shop owner, surprised the political establishment by winning the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor.
Pat Quinn Has Scott Lee Cohen To Thank For Survival In Governor's Race Will Guzzardi 2010
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Cohen, a pawn-shop owner, surprised the political establishment by winning the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor.
Pat Quinn Has Scott Lee Cohen To Thank For Survival In Governor's Race Will Guzzardi 2010
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Then listen up between paydays when your buds are running out of cash, and they have a rifle to sell, often times you can pick-up the whole rig (rifle, scope, sling, ammo) for 50 cents on the dollar, and that's about what a pawn-shop is going to pay your buddy for it too, so don't feel bad.
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Then listen up between paydays when your buds are running out of cash, and they have a rifle to sell, often times you can pick-up the whole rig (rifle, scope, sling, ammo) for 50 cents on the dollar, and that's about what a pawn-shop is going to pay your buddy for it too, so don't feel bad.
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The nation's largest jewelry-store chain, Kay Jewelers, last year opened an online service to buy gold jewelry, and last week, one of the largest pawn-shop chains, Cash America International, launched Gold Promise, an online gold-buying service with the gold-chain-festooned Mr. T as a spokesman.
The Other Gold Rush: Selling It Karen Blumenthal 2010
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GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: On FX's brilliant Justified, it's a round of "Harlan Roulette," presided over by sadistic pawn-shop owner/Dixie Mafia middleman Glenn Vogel the unnerving Pruitt Taylor Vince to punish one of his Oxy-addicted flunkies.
Matt's TV Week in Review: Stunts on Grey's and Glee, and More 2012
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Toward the close of this dense and clever and generally sympathetic study, Moody does cite an essay by Pound on “The Tribe of Judah” and “the pawn-shop” where, as he deftly points out, there is a telltale confusion between Judaism and “the Jew.”
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Toward the close of this dense and clever and generally sympathetic study, Moody does cite an essay by Pound on “The Tribe of Judah” and “the pawn-shop” where, as he deftly points out, there is a telltale confusion between Judaism and “the Jew.”
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A bleak 2009 outlook from Cash America International (NYSE) spooked investors in pawn-shop and payday-loan outfits, once thought to be recession-proof.
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Financial stocks were also noticeably strong Monday, led by pawn-shop operator First Cash Financial Services, up 1.51, or 10%, to 16.59, which has risen steadily for the past 1½ months.
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