Beyond mortgages, Wall Street even finances usurious, 455 percent APR corner-store payday lending to the tune of nearly $3 billion a year. ❋ Heather McGhee (2011)
In other words, the Treasury's handling of the bailout is starting to make Paul Bremer's mismanagement of Iraq's reconstruction project (remember the bricks of $100 being thrown around without any accountability?) look like a small corner-store stickup. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In other words, the Treasury's handling of the bailout is starting to make Paul Bremer's mismanagement of Iraq's reconstruction project remember the bricks of $100 being thrown around without any accountability? look like a small corner-store stickup. ❋ Charlie Cray (2010)
But researchers spend little time in corner-store lines. ❋ Unknown (2007)
One big difference that the corner-store analogy implies is geography. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Y'know, I've never touched an issue of Previews in my life my habits were formed back in the primordial era of corner-store spinner racks, & while I'm not sure exactly when Previews came into existence, it was sometime while I was taking the '80s & '90s & early '00s off, & I guess it's too late to teach an old dog new tricks, & I'm glad of it ... ❋ Unknown (2008)
Despite his familiarity with the levers of power, say insiders, Mort is a man of the people, a corner-store populist. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If we see a man playing checkers day after day in some corner-store, although the game itself may be no harm, still it is wrong for that man to waste valuable time. ❋ Harry A. Lewis (N/A)
Before returning home they spent some little time in Allen's favorite corner-store, where they indulged with its genial owner -- who was an old friend of Mrs. Gordon's -- in pleasant reminiscences. ❋ Various (N/A)
It should be added that she has persistently refused to let the corner-store, now occupied by a butcher, as a saloon; or her income from it might have been considerably increased. ❋ Unknown (1890)
So saying, she invested twenty-five cents in egg-biscuits and oranges at the little corner-store with its minute ice cream saloon, where, seating themselves behind the faded red curtain, the sister and brother had a merry meal. ❋ Unknown (1869)
The neighborhood was healthy; the village was so nearly deserted that no curious observers lounged upon the tavern-porch, or sat upon the horse-block at the corner-store; and Mr. Alfred Barton had been seen riding towards Avondale. ❋ Bayard Taylor (1851)
No catch, said Vila, a corner-store recruiter for the Food Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to making healthy, affordable food available to all Philadelphians. ❋ Unknown (2011)
And while big business posts record profits, the Tax Office expects 260,000 small business owners - many of them struggling corner-store operators - to default on these repayment deals. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Gosnell, by contrast, took in at least $1.8 million a year from his corner-store medical practice at the Women's Medical Society, which prosecutors who charged him with eight counts of murder this week called his drug mill by day and abortion mill by night. ❋ Unknown (2011)
