Word: corbeaux
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...liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking for a home are left to grapple with les corbeaux (the ravens), the landlords; or they must deal with the tenants of pegged-rent apartments who sublet at exorbitant rates...
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