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Atmospheric dive bars, funky/punky mom-and-pop shops and reasonable rents began attracting artists, musicians and bohemian slackers and scenesters as residents in the early ’90s.

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"There are a ton of mom-and-pop shops in Ukraine where people are making drones and assembling them in their apartments, in their garages and donating them to the forces. They've become the go-to weapon for the Ukrainians."

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The street was alive with Armenian markets and mom-and-pop bakeries.

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Shailendra Singh, managing director of PeakXV Partners - a global venture capital firm which has some $9bn invested across several high-profile Indian start-ups including Groww and Pine Labs - attributes the robust demand for these IPOs to better regulation and a wider diversity of participants, including small mom-and-pop investors, mutual funds and insurers, pumping money into India's equity markets.

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Today, Drizzle is sold in about 20 mom-and-pop stores across New Jersey and New York.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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