The most anxious of diners can recruit the waitress to give a nod when a party is leaving, try again on a Tuesday night or a Saturday morning, or head across the street to Five Leaves, which shares owners and is a definite restaurant, wait list and all.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins coach heard the clamoring for the team to pack up and head back across the street to the decidedly antiquated though plenty intimidating Igloo.

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Administrators Deloitte said the latest cuts across the head office network at Eastcastle Street in London, Marlow and Solihull had been "a difficult decision, but a necessary one in restructuring the business".

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They urged the woman, who appeared to be badly burned about the head and face, to come down from the home and then helped her across the street.

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Whenever this burgeoning religious observance began, it's now visible across the Muslim world in the increasing number of women in the street wearing head scarves, the number of Islamist parties that have made electoral gains in recent years (in Morocco and Egypt for instance), and now, in an increasing appetite for Sharia finance.

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Shareholders have had a tough time being heard in these elections, which has led to some of the bad behavior across the Street, says Ken Shubin Stein, head of Spencer Capital Management.

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