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  • Neibauer surveys business perspectives on the mayoral race: "I think [Fenty] 's very progressive in the way he runs the departments," says developer Chris Donatelli; "He's his own worst enemy," says flower-shop owner.

    DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 3, 2010 2010

  • If that lineup wasn't frightening enough, Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner are the ostensible leads, she a schoolteacher blissfully unaware that her boyfriend (Mr. Dempsey) is married; he a flower-shop owner who has just proposed, bedside, to his girlfriend (Ms. Alba), who apparently has someone do her hair while she sleeps.

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • If that lineup wasn't frightening enough, Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner are the ostensible leads, she a schoolteacher blissfully unaware that her boyfriend (Mr. Dempsey) is married; he a flower-shop owner who has just proposed, bedside, to his girlfriend (Ms. Alba), who apparently has someone do her hair while she sleeps.

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • If that lineup wasn't frightening enough, Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner are the ostensible leads, she a schoolteacher blissfully unaware that her boyfriend (Mr. Dempsey) is married; he a flower-shop owner who has just proposed, bedside, to his girlfriend (Ms. Alba), who apparently has someone do her hair while she sleeps.

    'Wolfman' Chases Its Tail John Anderson 2010

  • Troubles at the till have also inspired a German flower-shop employee, who followed Ms. Narcisi and the French book into print with a volume called "Customer Rage."

    In Tales of the Cashier's Tape, 2009

  • Yuka Hayashi/The Wall Street Journal Masaaki Ota, 42, a flower-shop owner, plans to vote for the DPJ as he sees the sales of his shop dropping by 10%-20% this year despite his effort to expand online retailing.

    Tokyo Voters Voice Opinions 2009

  • The flower-shop hybrid, with its many layered petals is resembles those of the majestic, graceful rose.

    Incarnations of Carnation: Exploring the Layers of a Flower Ayala Sender 2008

  • The flower-shop hybrid, with its many layered petals is resembles those of the majestic, graceful rose.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Ayala Sender 2008

  • He looked at his watch and then again, he took a book and pretended to read and found himself composing a scathing speech of remonstrance to be delivered on the morrow at the flower-shop.

    Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

  • At a flower-shop in a big adjoining street, she bought a bunch of many-coloured roses, and with these in her hands, went straight to where Schilsky lived.

    Maurice Guest 2003

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