A memory: an elderly Chinese woman selling slip-on shoes on Canal Street to the crush of New Yorkers who had to walk home in their office shoes across the bridge.
Earnings were once 30 cents for every dollar of beer sold, but slipped to just a penny by 1990.
The town wants to establish a limit on how many swimmers the lifeguards can handle, and it wants to find a fair way to sell boat slips.
Concerns among passengers that using such products might brand them as over-the-top neurotics seem to be diminishing, at least according to Angela Aaron, a fashion stylist who created and sells cover slips that fit over airplane seats to reduce exposure to germs.
Wenger's sure touch in the market, not only of who to buy but when to sell, has slipped in recent years.
Lipsius finally won a parole, and was free for four years, then he was picked up for selling policy-number slips and was sent back to Great Meadow to finish the original maximum sentence.
Clearly, the ability to create new dockominiums will be limited somewhat by the requirement that the land under the water be owned by the individual or company selling the boat slips, she said.
Right next door, Mr. Brown's wife, Lucy Barnes, runs a clothing boutique, selling her own designs: slip dresses, A-line skirts and halters with antique lace and crystal beads.
Prestley Blake could not just sit by, living a happy retirement, while what he saw as the legacy of Friendly Ice Cream, the company that he and his brother founded during the Depression and later sold, started to slip away.
Town houses here -- the ones with backyard boat slips -- are selling for $900,000 and most of the 134 units under construction have already been spoken for.
"Kick-Ass" ended up selling $19.8 million in tickets; "Dragon" slipped to second place with $19.6 million.
