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  • "We basically knocked it off, reverse-engineered it," says Mr. Bearak, president of Chicago-based Justin Blair & Co., a maker and distributor of shoe-store equipment.

    Maker of Foot Measurer Tries to Stop Other Shoe From Dropping Timothy Aeppel 2011

  • "I've been here in America for 11 years," he said, adding that he's worked at two other fast-food restaurants and a shoe-store chain.

    Chipotle, Undocumented Workers, And The Trouble With 'Enforcement-Only' Immigration 2011

  • Shades of bowling-alley lawyer Ed but minus the charm, this low-rent loser of a show sets up shop in a shoe-store law firm in Cincinnati, as the show nearly pulls a muscle ladling on the quirkiness.

    Roush Review: Remakes and a Retread 2011

  • We have already stopped in Atchison so I could see Carl and hear the shoe-store gossip.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • We have already stopped in Atchison so I could see Carl and hear the shoe-store gossip.

    Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010

  • After spending $22 million in 2005 on a shoe-store chain now called Footpark, it is closing almost all of the nearly 200 stores, taking a $27 million hit in the latest quarter to do so.

    Slowing Down on Fast Retailing 2009

  • But for an unfavorable full-length view, nothing can compare with the one that I get of myself as I pass the shoe-store on the corner.

    Comics: Gluyas Williams – The Bleat. 2009

  • Jerome Fisher, the founder of the Nine West shoe-store chain, lost millions in the Madoff scam.

    Madoff Scandal's Deep Impact 2009

  • The glass mercury thermometer, which generations of rapscallions have rubbed between their palms in the hope of a day off from school, may soon go the way of the shoe-store X-ray machine.

    No More Mercury 2008

  • "Why would it be wrong for him to run?" said Monserrate Gonzalez, a Brooklyn shoe-store manager.

    Color-Coded Congressmen 2008

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