On a smaller scale, this can be a neighborhood restauranteur or auto repair shop.
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Now, the auto repair and maintenance industry is using social media to overhaul its Millennial outreach strategies.
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So far in 2011, auto repair shops have been doing extremely well, with sales growing almost ten percent.
"It's been a great car, " remarked Keith Slep who runs an auto repair shop a few miles from the factory.
Mr. CHARLIE PICKEREL(ph) (Owner of Charlie's Marathon Station, Chicago): One of the few left that still has gasoline and auto repair.
Bored with auto repair, Field in 1997 bought a print shop in Livingston that catered to businesses in Bozeman and Billings.
But Americans have to get back and forth to work and school, so auto repair seems like a necessity for job security.
For auto repair facilities, not all repairs produce the same profit margins.
Ask for recommendations from friends, and look for AAA-approved auto repair facilities.
But skeleton and weightlifting have about as much in common as quilting and auto repair, and that is what makes Ms. Uhlaender so unusual.
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Nasser had diversified into Internet commerce, auto repair shops--even a junkyard.
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Meanwhile, gender stereotypes hold true when it comes to auto repair.
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My next stop was an auto repair parts shop, where I had hoped to find a new bracket to staple a broken luggage rack onto by bike.
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Students and parents could then purchase educational services from a variety of sources, the way Americans purchase veterinary services, legal services, financial consulting, physical fitness training and auto repair.
The DIY (do it yourself) auto repair market has grown along with the auto, truck and motorcycle industry and so have the local shops (maintainers) that do the work for us.
On the sides of this street were luggage stores, bike and auto repair shops, snack stands, and stores that seemed to be packed with a mishmash of imported goods: brooms, hats, or LED shrines upon which to place your Buddha figure.
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That aging fleet, which has been a boon for auto repair retailers like AutoZone and Pep Boys, will need to be replaced in coming years, which bodes well for an industry that has transformed into one that can be profitable at lower sales rates.
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The office of the U.S. attorney for Manhattan said late Thursday that Ryan admitted she met Israel on June 7, two days before the abandoned vehicle was found, at an auto repair shop near the home they shared in tony Westchester County, a suburb of New York City.
Frank Reluzco, owner of an Exxon station, auto-repair business and convenience store in Frederick, Md.
Here Andrew Field, a former owner of an auto-repair-shop, runs a hypergrowth web business with a national clientele.
"I'm definitely hurting, " said Carl Betz, owner of a Getty station and auto-repair shop in downtown Madison, N.
"These young men can then set up their own auto-repair shops and employ other people like themselves, " Mr Yunus says.
Midas has more than 1, 360 auto-repair shops in the U.S. as of the end of the second quarter, and 157 in Canada.
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"We still talk about stocks now and then, but not like we used to, " said Mr. Smithson, who now runs an auto-repair shop.
They got the car working during a one-day auto-repair binge.
"I don't think anybody from this school could be smart enough to attack a big Internet company like Google, " said Zhang Jian, a 22-year-old auto-repair student dressed in a basketball jersey and flip flops.
That's exactly how a death tax that was originally sold in 1916 as hitting only billionaires like the Rockefellers gradually began to apply to middle-class families who own, say, a successful auto-repair shop or invested wisely during the stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s.
It relies in part on the story of Mary Brown, an auto-repair-shop owner who argued in court filings she would have had to divert funds from her business to comply with the law's requirement that, beginning in 2014, most Americans obtain coverage or pay a penalty.
Most repair shops and auto parts stores will accept them for this purpose, as will local recycling centers.
Just in industries directly related to autos, trillions of dollars change hands each year flowing to and from auto insurers, auto financiers, service and repair shops, rental agencies, taxi operators, fleet managers, oil companies, transportation and logistics companies, emergency rooms, health insurers, medical practices, personal-injury lawyers, government taxing authorities, road-construction companies, parking-lot operators, and on and on and on.
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