Word: rent
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...struggling host congregations like Our Redeemer, whose membership has fallen from 1,200 to 88 as its German-American neighborhood has changed to a black, Haitian and Latino one. With the church scrambling to pay utility bills of as much as $1,000 a month, the $300-a-month rent the Haitians pay comes in handy. And church members say the planted congregation sends a message to the neighborhood. "It helps to see people of all colors coming into the church all week rather than just white people coming in on Sunday," says Our Redeemer president Fred Bodimer...
...land and farm animals freed slaves like my grandfather George White expected to get after the Civil War to help them support themselves and make their new liberty real. For most of them, of course, the promise never materialized, even though the Freedmen's Bureau had the authority to rent abandoned or confiscated Southern farmland to freed slaves until they could afford to buy it. If that brave promise had been kept, Mr. President, you wouldn't be embroiled in the latest debate about a government apology for slavery. If the freedmen had become landowners instead of penurious laborers, their...
...towering, 35-ft.-tall statue of Mao Zedong. Here Mao lives, a hero still. In his long shadow, fan-twirling line dancers stomp through a traditional peasant rite. Doctors in grubby white coats offer herbal medicines, acupuncture or blood-pressure tests. Vendors proffer savory kabobs or key chains. Children rent old-fashioned roller skates for a few yuan, while their elder brothers play badminton without any nets. The throng does not disperse until the blazing phosphorus lights dim near midnight...
...other businesses, they have no exclusive territories, and they generally take orders from headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill. Franchisees own nothing other than a 20-year agreement, renewable at the company's option, to equip and run a restaurant in return for 12.5% off the top in royalty and rent. (The rates can be higher for some sites.) They spend a minimum of 4% of sales for marketing. Last year McDonald's got $1.8 billion from its U.S. franchisees...
...original 700 units Harvard owned under rent control, 100 have now been sold to the city, approximately 40 have been sold at market rates and the remaining 560 are still owned and managed by Harvard...