Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hacienda becomes so poor that it becomes unprofitable for the renter to operate, the Indians may be able to rent it directly from the owner. Several years ago the Indians in a hacienda not far from Vicos took advantage of such an opportunity. But though they have freed themselves from the daily brutalities of a particularly cruel renter, they have been unable to progress toward a higher standard of living and to build a school, their immediate goals...
Zinacantan, hilly and forested, does not have enough arable land to produce all the corn needed. So the Zinacantecos often rent fields a days walk from their homes, in a tropical part of Chiapas called "hot country." For weeks at a time the men are gone from home, tending their fields. During the summer, I worked with them, in return for my shelter, but especially for their friendship...
...thousands of the city's longtime residents; more than 70% of the 61,692 persons on relief have lived in Detroit since before 1950. Children under three get an allowance of $5.50 a week for food, an active adult gets $10.60. The city also pays for fuel, rent and clothing. Counting city and state funds, welfare payments in Detroit this year will total around $28 million, compared with...
...manage to hang on for another 20 years. By 1980, he promised, the gross national product will have grown fivefold, industrial production sixfold, and total farm output 3½ times. No one would then work long hours for low pay, and every family would have its own rent-free apartment. Best of all, Nikita promised that by 1965 each Russian would have the incredible bounty of "almost three pairs of shoes per year. "Some of the 1980 "miracles" compared with current U.S. levels...
...rent of $110 would cover an apartment including living-dining room, kitchen bath, and one bedroom. The questionnaire results indicated that most of the units in the dormitories will be of this type, rather than those with two and three bedrooms or "efficiency apartments" with only a single main room and a bathroom...