They could be members of your church or synagogue or customers at the hardware store you manage.

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Al Terrile, a 69-year-old retired Southport resident, stocked up on batteries, a box of firewood and a light at the hardware store.

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These businesses, despite representing some of the highest earning taxpayers in America, get lumped in with Al down at the hardware store simply because of the flow-through nature of their business structure.

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The key maker works at a hardware store across the street from the gym.

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Townsfolk can grab the free Patriot at the grocer, hardware store or convenience shop--anywhere White has a rack.

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The gardener looked at him curiously, then accompanied him to the door of the only hardware store in town.

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Best of all, it doesn't break down if it rains at the construction site or out in the hardware-store back lot.

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It all marks an extraordinary rise for the boy from Cobb County, whose parents ran the hardware store in Mableton, and for the post-graduate law student who sat at the feet of Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor.

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The only hardware store in Harrison is selling replacement fenceposts at cost, but even that break won't help ranchers who can't afford to feed their catle.

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