41.   Downtown stores stayed shuttered Wednesday, but otherwise most Haitians turned a deaf ear to a grass-roots call for a general strike against the government.

42.   Downtown stores were fully stocked with Spurs championship T-shirts, and congratulatory banners hung in shop windows.

43.   Flynt said Thursday he and his brother would open a new downtown store within a week.

44.   Its new downtown store has higher-end apparel than most of its department stores and fewer lawn and garden items due to the urban location.

45.   Just about every downtown store was vandalized or looted.

46.   Last week, many downtown stores closed their doors as troops patrolled streets, anticipating disturbances that never came to pass.

47.   Shelves at one downtown video store were nearly empty Friday morning.

48.   The Flynts closed two downtown Cincinnati stores after disputes with the city over its sexually oriented business law.

49.   The gang smashed downtown store windows, threw firebombs, slashed tires and burned about two dozen cars.

50.   TV commercials blare in downtown stores and in homes.