Word: borrower
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These options include a two to five percent Affordable Housing Preservation Fund fee, to be levied on middle and upper income tenants, and a revolving loan fund allowing property owners to borrow money at low interest rates to maintain the rent-controlled buildings...
...control tenants earn salaries above the median income and many live in apartments much larger than they need," Schloning said. "Therefore, both the low-income citizens and landlords like myself lose out--the ones who really need low-priced housing don't get it, and I'm forced to borrow money just to keep up my building...
...absorb the first blow of expenses, Kuwait will borrow money and sell part of its $300 billion of foreign holdings. Then it needs to get oil flowing again as fast as possible, because the bills aren't going to let up. Destroying Kuwait took just seven months for Saddam's occupying forces. Rebuilding it could take an army of globe-straddling companies until the next century...
...miss out on much of the reconstruction because Bonn did not supply troops to the war effort and German companies illegally helped build chemical weapons for Iraq. But neither country intends to walk away from the region and leave a vast market to foreign firms. Kuwait will have to borrow to finance early projects, and flush Japanese lenders could be an important source of funds. While vowing not to attach strings to such money, Japan could well encourage Kuwait to spend it on the world-class services of Japanese contractors...
Although some of the 650 works have disappeared and others remain unidentifiable, Barron was able to borrow some 180 items that were in the original show. Among them are numerous masterpieces of the period, such as Kirchner's piercing image of castration anxiety, Self-Portrait as Soldier, 1915, and Beckmann's Still Life with Musical Instruments, 1926, perhaps the greatest of his still-life paintings, now seen for the first time...