Word: rent
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...have not been encouraging. Video-on-demand is billed as the best reason to get interactive television. But TCI reports that subscribers using its video-on- demand test trial in Colorado are ordering an average of 2.5 movies a | month. That's probably fewer videos than many U.S. families rent each week...
...households that received public aid. The cards enable recipients to shop at supermarkets such as Giant and Safeway as well as at 3,500 other stores around the state; families on welfare can also use the cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines and to pay utility bills and rent for public housing. Among other benefits, these cards have virtually eliminated the expense of preparing and distributing welfare checks...
...Lane seeks (mostly poor too, but working nonetheless) can live without bankrupting themselves. To this end, HUD will shortly amend its rules so local authorities can prefer working families over welfare recipients as they fill apartment vacancies from waiting lists that now total an astonishing 6 million people nationwide. Rent caps are coming too. Currently families pay 30% of their income in rent, a figure that climbs as earnings rise, a nonsensical policy "that creates a work disincentive as tenants seek to keep their rents low," says Cisneros. "In some cases," adds the Secretary, "it's got so crazy that...
...suit against the attorney general alsoalleges that a summary of the petition that hisoffice prepared for inclusion on the state ballotwas misleading, because, the suit claims, it ledvoters to believe that the petition was actuallypro-rent control...
...Prime Suspect 3, a four-part British mini-series that begins Thursday on PBS' Mystery!, the murder scene is London's gay underground of "rent boys" (child prostitutes), their patrons and pimps. How can one approach this theme without being either sensational or homophobic? The strategy chosen by Lynda La Plante, who also wrote the first Prime Suspect and sketched the story for the second, is twofold: make most of the suspects sympathetic and most of the sleuths complete professionals...