Word: landlordism
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Zardari's rise to Pakistan's Presidency reads like a Cinderella tale turned Mafia thriller. The son of a feudal landlord and cinema-house owner, Zardari married Bhutto, Pakistan's political princess, in 1987, when she was about to launch her political career. In time, Zardari became Bhutto's political partner, taking posts in her Cabinet and smoothing the ruffled egos the sometimes haughty Prime Minister left in her wake. "He was the fence mender," says Aftab Khan Sherpao, a veteran politician. "If someone [in parliament] had grievances, she sent Zardari in. He was the back channel. He knew...
...living in Hong Kong have their own horror stories of racism, from humiliating police searches on the street to being blocked from entering clubs and bars. It's not out of the ordinary for an Indian banker to be denied a flat for rent on the grounds that the landlord doesn't want his property to smell like curry. "This has been going on too long in a city with world-class aspirations," says David O'Rear, chief economist of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, which sat in during the drafting of the law. "It was getting embarrassing...
Rebuilding ground zero was going to be a great show of American defiance, a Knute Rockne speech to the nation. Seven years on, though, this grand statement is barely a stammer. In an unsparing new progress report, the site's landlord admitted that every part of the project is over budget and behind schedule. It will take several months just to map out a new timeline...
...executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which, as Ground Zero's landlord, is just one of the 19 government bureaucracies with a say in rebuilding the World Trade Center. On Monday he gave New York governor David Paterson a progress report. The best thing to do, he said over 34 pages, is scrap the budget and timeline for the whole project...
Frank Kramer, who took over the store 46 years ago, when he was a senior at Boston University, said in an interview with The Boston Globe that the book store is still profitable and that his landlord, Harvard, has been supportive of the business...