She had worked in an office and a shoe shop before embracing the Quiverfull life.

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His father owned a shoe shop in Ningbo, a city south of Shanghai, where he was born in 1918.

CNN: The Tough Trader

The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.

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But now two other companies have challenged Google for the jester's crown Twitter, a microblogging service, and Zappos, an online shoe-shop.

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Hobsons shoe shop on the Strand in Derby has put a display with five coloured rings in its window.

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Only when individuals become paying customers and shop around for their own coverage will they stop acting like Imelda Marcos in a shoe store: Buy all you want, price no object.

FORBES: Uncommon Sense

In Kuqa a Chinese man shows how an explosive device had fallen to the bottom of the flight of stairs down to his shoe shop.

ECONOMIST: Xinjiang

He grew up the son of shop keeper parents (both also engineers) in Germany, where working in the shoe store was a family affair.

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