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  • But others were sure Mackey's idealistic style of shop-keeping could work.

    Whole Foods' Organic Capitalism Elizabeth Flock 2010

  • But others were sure Mackey's idealistic style of shop-keeping could work.

    Whole Foods' Organic Capitalism Elizabeth Flock 2010

  • But others were sure Mackey's idealistic style of shop-keeping could work.

    Whole Foods' Organic Capitalism Elizabeth Flock 2010

  • Nothing, of course, was ever open on Sundays, except oddly enough in Sweden where the power of the trade unions trumped the shop-keeping classes.

    Peter Baldwin: The 24/7/365 Society vs. La Dolce Vita 2010

  • Betsy, newly pregnant, has made the trip from New York to Cape Town to sit with her comatose father in his final days and imagines his life right back to his childhood in a Jewish shop-keeping family, living amongst the white Afrikaaner population in South Africa.

    45 entries from March 2008 2008

  • The ordinary working man as well as the higher echelons and shop-keeping class are behind him.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • She feared that a beloved niece, Polly, would never escape the bonds of home and family in London to return to shop-keeping in Boston, but Polly allayed those anxieties: "The spirit of independence you cherish'd in me," she wrote, "is not yet extinct."

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint – Jacques, that expedient of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and shameful Place de Grove of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • He was detested by the whole of the middle or shop-keeping class which in England, according to Matthew

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • How could any man serve his time more notably, toward shop-keeping, and pave fairer way into the corporation of a grandly corrupt old English town, than by long graduation of free trade?

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

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