Word: regulars
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Working as an Egyptian immigrant in a predominantly white suburb, Lola took care to invite newcomers to sit at the counter with her regular customers. Her deli is the only spot in town where business executives would mix with construction workers. When her brain tumor confined her to a wheelchair, she keep working, and the customers kept coming, choosing to make their own sandwiches rather than go elsewhere...
...show that producers have gone into the field and hand-picked the contestants from interviews. Previously, contestants were selected after they answered questions on an 800 number. The show's producers continued to experiment with this new selection format, travelling to 7 cities to pick the contestants for the regular January episodes of the show...
...find a pair of drugstore glasses that work for your eyes, you probably need to give up and pay for a prescription pair. Even if you find a pair of glasses that you can read with, don't use that as an excuse to skip regular eye exams. There are other conditions--such as glaucoma--for which you should be checked. Consider the money you save on drugstore glasses as partial payment for your next trip to the eye doctor...
...drawings can misrepresent their subjects. So he offers multiple images of each species. His page on the American robin, for example, presents four drawings of the bird in flight, two as seen from above and two as seen from below. Accompanying these are drawings of a juvenile robin, a regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird seen in eastern Canada. Another drawing portrays a group of robins in typical feeding postures on the ground. Beneath the artwork, Sibley presents a detailed description of robins' vocal behavior ("Call varies from a low, mellow...
...collapse while exercising at your health club, chances are the facility won't be equipped to help. According to preliminary data, half the clubs studied have neither an emergency medical plan in place, personnel trained in CPR nor a working defibrillator. Among those that do, 90% fail to perform regular emergency drills. And one-third of clubs don't bother to screen prospective clients for medical conditions that could make unsupervised workouts risky...