Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago in a flossy brochure that spread out a tempting smorgasbord of the good urban life: "A new conception of city living . . . privacy and space heretofore undreamed of in New York City . . . electronic living," and so and on. "If you read that," mourns a discontented W.S.V. tenant (rent: $353 a month), "what would you expect? You'd expect the best of everything...
...months Diario and Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero, 39, had been living on borrowed time as they blasted Castro's arbitrary rent reductions, his agrarian farm laws ("Hundreds of people have had their property taken away without compensation"), his flirtation with Communism. Boldly the newspaper spoke out for "democratic normalcy and the law. Is this a crime? Is it immoral? Are there not a lot of Cuban people who want the same?" Castro tolerated such impudence only because Diario was considered the unofficial spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba and because it furnished proof to "Yankee imperialists" that...
Blotter Squatter. In Nashville. Tenn., after Pauline Cox's 191st arrest for public drunkenness in eleven years, the local constabulary bowed to the inevitable, logged her address as ''Police Station' noted her rent to the city: more than $1,900 worth of fines and workhouse stints...
...build its Penn Center in downtown Philadelphia, it called on Dowling for the planning. He urged the road to sacrifice some office rental space in favor of setback buildings with fountains, air and light, convinced Pennsy brass that what was lost in footage would be made up in higher rent. When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown area. Dowling, then adviser to Equitable Life Assurance, came to the rescue. At a meeting in his office, he advised Pittsburgh planners to stop thinking small about a mere four-block housing project. On his desktop...
After Aluli and other co-op developers build their apartment hotels, they hire trained management teams to operate them, provide maid service and other amenities to the owners of individual apartments, who are then free either to live in them or to rent them to tourists. A typical two-room Aluli co-op hotel apartment costs $15,100, with $4,500 down and a $75 monthly mortgage payment for 25 years at 7% interest. An investor can earn 10% on his initial investment if his apartment is rented only 15 days a month...