But the reason why so many of these mortgage companies were making loans that banks couldn't make is because they had an ace in the hole, and their ace in the hole was Wall Street.
Make sure to stop by Hashem, the finest falafel cafe in the country bar none (it has a picture of King Hussein dining here on its wall, if you need any further recommendation) and Habibah, a hole-in-the-wall baker selling Palestinian knafeh, a syrupy vermicelli-like pastry that locals swear by.
And the poster of Beck gazing down over the crib, covering the hole in the wall?
The place is called Uglesich, a hole in the wall opened by a Croatian immigrant in 1924.
La Cova Fumada, a family-run, hole in the wall bodega, is rarely less than bursting with locals.
There's a large hole in the wall of their living room, the result of fierce fighting one night during the war.
The council said the initial hole in the wall had been repaired with more than 70 tonnes of concrete.
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In all honesty, I can't blame Hamas for Blowing a hole in the wall to let the straving and sick people cross into Egypt.
To prove the experiment would work in an isolated environment, he set up another "hole in the wall" computer in a village 300 miles away.
If one could only punch a hole in the wall and look through it, one would see right away that this angry man is sitting there.
In some mazes, a picture of a piece of cheese sat outside the exit, next to a hole in the wall where the mouse could escape.
With the Zulus breaking down the door to get in, he knocked a hole through the wall into an adjacent ward, where he met up with a Private Alfred Hook.
The party began with a cocktail reception and silent auction, then segued into a live one hosted by actor Alec Baldwin, who also sits on the Hole in the Wall board.
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And that makes it a decorating conundrum: The larger the screen, the more it looks like a gaping black hole in the wall which is why the "television question" is one of the first designers raise when they sit clients down.
And in the process give the reviewer, who is probably ignored by his peers when he punches into work each morning, and by the general public who may not know his name from a hole in the wall, Brad Pitt or Beyonce-level recognition.
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Two hundred metres away, through a hole in the shattered wall, is the Patras ferry port.
Alas, renters are out of luck unless their landlord approves a three-inch hole in the exterior wall.
The house isn't going to fall down, we're not going to bash a hole in the cellar wall and find the beer turns green.
In TriBeCa, Terroir (24 Harrison St, near Greenwich Street, www.wineisterroir.com) is the sister of a much-loved hole-in-wall wine bar of the same name in the East Village.
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Commandos stormed the building through a hole blasted in the wall.
It was the same Sunday night, when firefighters rushed through a hole punched into the wall of the Kiss nightclub by people who had escaped the building after it caught on fire.
So she loaded several shells, but as she was trying to figure out how to remove them she accidentally fired a shot, shattering a vanity mirror and blasting a hole in her bedroom wall.
Ten years from now you will probably have forgotten the name of that authentic hole-in-wall local bistro you found, or the off-the-beaten path residential neighborhood you strolled through, but you will remember that gondola ride.
Big Pharma is heading "off a cliff" and into "a black hole, " according to Wall Street.
When their 3-meters long robot, nicknamed "Anna Konda", is connected to a fire hose the hydraulics enable it to project a powerful stream of water and give it enough power to lift 650 kilograms, strong enough, its developers believe, to punch a hole through a door or wall to get to the flames.
But, for those in the know, many incredible, older, not quiet hole-in-the-wall, food merchants still exist.
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Dr Mitra is most famous for hole-in-the-wall computers which he put in the slums of India.
Just don't curl your lip at the hole-in-the-wall barbecue joints they are the ones that are always packed.
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