Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lampoon officers had originally planned to spend the money in a commemoration of the Battle of Hastings. They planned to have armies and elephants float across the Charles, but the Administration said that undergraduates were not allowed to rent elephants...
...intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply. I think instead we ought to start ourselves a rent-a-Negro company...
...during most of the '60s, apartment construction is making a comeback that surprises economists, delights landlords, and quite possibly signals a fundamental shift in how most Americans will choose to live in the years ahead. "Demand is so strong that you could almost leave out the bathroom and rent a new apartment," says California Developer Gerson Bakar, whose 994-unit Woodlake Apartments in San Mateo have a six-month waiting list. Bakar's comment, which drew appreciative chuckles last week at a Las Vegas convention of the National Apartment Association, reflects his industrys' ebullient mood...
...word comes from the Greek gyros, meaning circle-the system will circulate funds within the country's huge post-office network. With a deposit of $12, anyone will be able to open a Giro account. An account holder can leave standing instructions to have his regular bills rent or mortgage installments, telephone and electric bills-paid automatically out of his account. If the recipient also has a Giro account, the computer will simply credit the payment to him, and there will be no charge for the service. If he does not have an account, the post office will mail...
Perhaps it's unfortunate that Waletzky chose social work for his heroine's commitment. This setting enables us to view a nice variety of amateur actors--wrinkled faces against decaying plaster--but leads to a misplaced emphasis. We spend almost the first half of the film watching the situation (rent-strike) rather than the girl who is the film's subject...