Word: landlordism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important that we remain as flexible as we can," she says. "Because its experimental, you don't know what mix will work." The fact is, though, that renting and re-renting shops every three to six months is a very expensive way of doing business. And no smart landlord wants as rapid a turnover as that...
...traveled from Brooklyn to California and back, he had already meandered through misfortune and failure and was perhaps on the brink of madness. Family, school, work, health, everything seemed to have withered away. "He had the 'American Dream,' and when it fell apart, he looked to blame somebody," his landlord told the New York Daily News. In the end, all Ferguson had left was rage...
Johnston said all the agencies involved with housing the families did "a great job." He told of one landlord who took several families "sight unseen" because of the need for housing...
...ceremony was held in New York City. Although Jean had converted by then, the only rabbi who would agree to officiate denied them a huppah and the traditional breaking of glass. As law students at Yale in the 1960s, the couple lived in a basement because no landlord would rent them a flat...
...inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord for more than four decades before finally regaining his homestead, and that man's son, who deals his birthright away to a slick-talking tale spinner for the Rockefeller energy interests...