Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue is the University's decision to gradually convert 700 formerly rent-controlled apartment units to housing for University affiliates...
...been straining for the common touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager. But his solutions for the castoffs of the new economy are pretty much straight from the G.O.P. playbook: a balanced budget, less government...
...sport has also aggressively encouraged corporations to do business entertaining at the track, whether they rent a box above the speedway or paint their logos across the hoods of 720-h.p. racers. "Things that women are involved in purchasing are showing up a lot more," notes Brown. Traditional sponsors, such as Valvoline and Skoal chewing tobacco, are increasingly sharing side-panel space with such brands as Tide, Maxwell House and the Family Channel...
What is driving Driver's Mart and the others is in part a desire to Simonize a business stained by imputations of high-pressure tactics and low-rent ethics. The bigger reason is profits. The used-car trade is now the fastest-growing segment of the automobile market, largely because of consumer resistance to rising new-car prices and the brisk turnover in the booming car-leasing business, which accounts for 32% of all new-vehicle transactions. About six of every 10 cars and trucks sold nowadays are secondhand, and given the deep discounting of automakers on pristine models...
...Yenching has always paid its rent promptly, according to S.T. Lung, one of the restaurant's owners. He said Harvard had never previously shown any displeasure with the Yenching...