It kept a board seat at biotech shop Centocor for 19 years, long after distributing shares to investors.

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L'Oreal said the Body Shop brand would be kept and the company would continue to be based in and run independently from its head office in Littlehampton, West Sussex.

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With no reason to shop around, keiretsu have kept virtually all insurance in-house.

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On her way home from work, years ago, she kept seeing Ercol furniture in a local house clearance shop.

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I'm sure the Jets were trying to shop Tebow, and I'm sure they kept getting denied.

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All that is a long way from the one-man tool-and-die shop Stronach opened in 1957 in Toronto, where he kept a cot in the corner for sleeping.

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Price indexes also haven't kept up with changes in what consumers buy and when and where they shop.

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After the TV show ended in 1968, Barris kept the Batmobile, storing it at his north Hollywood custom-car shop and trailering it to auto events nationwide.

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Many of the shop owners had relocated in advance but a number of them kept operating and were given less than 24 hours advance notice that the bulldozers were coming.

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