Word: landlordism
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Harvard, the Square's largest landlord, added several more properties to its extensive portfolio in 1986 in what may have been the single most expensive year of commercial real estate acquisitions in the University's history...
...multi-million dollar purchase, completedlast December, made HRE landlord to more than sixarea businesses, including the Harvard ProvisionCompany, Brodie's Auto Rental, Skewers Restaurantand University Typewriter...
...Jung has been under house arrest for the past five weeks, his home surrounded night and day by dozens of policemen. At least a dozen R.D.P. assemblymen are also under indictment or investigation, many on charges for thinly disguised political reasons. The new party has not even found a landlord willing to rent it space for a headquarters, forcing Kim Young Sam to joke that he "may have to pitch an extra-large tent on the bank of the Han River" for offices...
Because Marla Hanson demanded from her landlord the return of a security deposit on her rented apartment and resisted his advances, he dispatched two men last June to slash her face with a razor. The instantly notorious New York City attack left Hanson with visible scars, but the 25-year-old model says the courtroom assault that followed was worse. At one of the resultant trials, a defense attorney claimed, without producing evidence, that she was helping prosecutors frame the two slashers because they were black. He alleged that she was sexually voracious and "preyed on men." He even confronted...
...shock that I had to answer that," Hanson said in a TV interview after the convictions came in. "I kept looking at the judge to help me." Instead, at the sentencing last week of Hanson's landlord, Acting Justice Jeffrey Atlas blasted Hanson and her attorney for publicly criticizing his handling of the trial. That caused Hanson to burst into tears and inspired a storm of outrage from editorialists and Mayor Edward Koch. "How many times must a victim be victimized?" he asked...