1.   Although German shopping hours are strictly regulated, Wal-Mart has managed to extend its hours without violating regulations by opening earlier.

2.   Among the wealthy lands of the West, Germany has the stingiest shopping hours of all.

3.   And with forklifts and equipment banished to the loading dock during peak shopping hours, the stores are safer, Mercer said.

4.   Even retailers gained little from the longer shopping hours introduced in November.

5.   He was calm, he said, because his family usually scrupulously avoided the bustle of the pre-Sabbath shopping hours.

6.   Home Depot also cut back on forklift traffic during daytime shopping hours.

7.   In Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, during the peak late-morning shopping hours, just a few women visited stores in their long gowns and veils.

8.   In a land that regulates everything from crossing the road to shopping hours with equal relentlessness, there is no overall legislative protection for nonsmokers.

9.   Poor consumer demand, restrictive zoning and limited shopping hours are among the problems Wal-Mart will face in Germany.

10.   Restrictive shopping hours do, in fact, condition much of the way Germans live.