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5 Yet since World War II, shifting tastes in clothes, rising real incomes, and domestic and foreign competition within the textile and apparel industries have markedly reduced the proportion of consumer budgets expended on apparel and its upkeep (laundry and dry cleaning).
Daily maintenance and upkeep of the museum's property including; grounds, gardens, nature paths, fountains, bridges and roads.
Although small Armenian, Greek Orthodox, Jewish, and Catholic communities survive, the majority of Istanbullus are Muslim, and adhere to the principles known as the “Five Pillars of Islam” — to believe with all one’s heart that “There is no God but God, and Mohammed is his Prophet”; to pray five times a day, at dawn, midday, afternoon, sunset, and after dark; to give alms to the poor, and towards the upkeep of the mosques; to fast between sunrise and sunset during the month of Ramadan; and to try to make the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in one’s lifetime.
Do tell Mr. Floss that Prudie implores him to find four minutes to do his admirable oral upkeep when he is outside of his automobile.
(Though Eliza had visited Minor a few times and was grateful for his contributions for the upkeep of her children, the idea that they had been intimate some fifteen years earlier is utterly speculative.