Word: landlordism
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...landlord wants to keep a small store when he can rent to Sprint with its deep pocket," says G. Pebble Gifford, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...landlord wants to keep a grocery store when he can rent to Sprint, with its big pocket," Gifford says. "It's the almighty dollar that's changing things around here--it's just that simple...
When she fell behind in the rent and her landlord warned that he would evict her, she knew she had to do something. She turned to a Manhattan consumer-bankruptcy lawyer, Charles Juntikka. Garcia was typical of many of his clients--embarrassed by her debts, upset over not being able to pay her bills, not knowing where to turn. "There is this image of middle-class people running up huge debts, then declaring bankruptcy and laughing at everyone," he says. "I've just never seen that. These people hurt...
...well as to-the-decimal point cognizance of how he contributes to the bottom line. Sprewell doesn't walk into Madison Square Garden as if he owns the joint. He walks in as if he knows very well who does, and as if he doesn't owe the landlord a single solitary thing--except the best game he can play...
...landlord asks Humphreys if he wants to lease the space for another year...