Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Potato, Two Potato closed because of high rent costs and "differences with the landlord," the owners told The Crimson this spring...
Instead, the landlords will rent the space "probably [to] another clothing store," Cahaly said...
...this bill is passed as expected, for the first time in 61 years--since the New Deal--there no longer will be a guarantee of federal aid to those with dependent children. The social safety net will be rent asunder. Food stamps will be cut by $40 billion over the next six years--cut off after four months to those unemployed without dependents. Legal immigrants will be denied disability and food stamps. And as a crowning achievement, Congress has set a five-year lifetime limit on welfare benefits, slashed to two if recipients remain unemployed...
...lends his name to the increasingly inaccurate title is an Iowa boy trying to make it in a decidedly bad New York City, where violence is so rampant that the population number falls before our eyes. In perhaps the most implausible sequence even of this movie, he lands a rent-controlled--and roach-controlled--apartment. Joe then spends his time split unevenly between getting a job and fighting off his militant, singing infestation. Then the country-folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan Ward). Golden-haired...
Escalating rent prices exacerbate the trend, Sullivan said, by crowding out small businesses in favor of wealthy national chains looking for large spaces to develop. He cited the recently-built HMV complex as an example...