Like other cities, Orlando has seen big national chain closures like Linen-N-Things and Circuit City.

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Lai's new direct marketing venture, adMart, goes head to head with Li enterprises such as Park 'n Shop supermarket chain and electrical appliances retailer Fortress.

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Lynsi Torres, the 30-year-old president and sole owner of the successful In-N-Out Burger chain, is not looking to get married.

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Linens N'Things, the home goods chain, recently was forced to liquidate after filing for bankruptcy protection in May.

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In-N-Out Burger, a western chain, was founded in the late 1940s.

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And while it says here that San Antonio-based Whataburger is unquestionably the greatest fast food chain in the world, California-based In-N-Out Burger devotees the world over would at least in this instance wrongly make the case for the latter.

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That idea, in 1985, morphed into a chain of more than 200 stores around the country called Bras N Things.

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Dan Cook, owner of Harry L Cook, a 95-year-old chain of dry cleaners (with three locations) in Syracuse, N.

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Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain.

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