"People are coming in and selling everything, " says Glenn Parshall, manager of a pawn shop on the northern side of Vegas.

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Kind of like a pawn shop, but publicly traded and well trusted.

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Then again, she could always hock it at a pawn shop.

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Since Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme was revealed, business has been booming at a pawn shop near Palm Beach, Fla.

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He realized the reward was better for him than the horn you couldn't take it to a pawn shop or find a musician who wouldn't recognize it.

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Next stop was a nail salon, then a pawn shop.

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He also claimed he had not stopped while leaving that building on his way to a pawn shop and was seemingly flummoxed when authorities told him they'd spotted him tossing items into a trash can.

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Imagination and ingenuity have gone into the display of souvenirs of this earlier Jubilee, along with 3-D mockups of London buildings in 1897, which range from Buckingham Palace itself to a poor East End dwelling over a pawn shop.

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Cook, who has a prior history of arrests for thefts and burglary, was identified when an HP laptop stolen from one of the hotel rooms was found in a local pawn shop, where staff helped police to identify him.

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In 1988, the Soviets established unequivocally the transportability of the components of two such systems the Pawn Shop and Flat Twin ABM radars by moving them from legal sites to a prohibited location.

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