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

BBC: Sarah Dawes and her children

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

CNN: The Tough Trader

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

BBC: University of Derby removes unofficial Olympic sign

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.

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They have embraced companies that serve them well, such as Zappos (an online shoe shop that lets you order, try on and return as many shoes as you like) and Southwest Airlines, a cheap but friendly carrier.

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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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Shoe company Vans and toy shop FAO Schwarz have both been experimenting with it.

BBC: Messaging in an instant

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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My great-grandfather had established the mill in the last century, had built the neighborhood there on mill hill, had financed the pharmacy and soda shop, the jeweler, the motel, the shoe store most of downtown.

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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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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.

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