Word: rental
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...officially express its concerns last month. Russian businessmen in the country had complained of discrimination. And most infuriating of all for the Russians, President Bakiyev did not follow through with a pledge to shut down the U.S. air base last year after the Americans nearly quadrupled their yearly rental payments. (See Kyrgyzstan's role in getting U.S. troops to Afghanistan...
...provided the impoverished country with a $2 billion loan and $150 million in aid. Russia denied any link between the two events, but U.S. officials saw it differently. Washington soon reached a deal with Kyrgyz leaders to keep the base open - in exchange for a tripling of the yearly rental to $60 million, among other conditions.(See Kyrgyzstan's role in getting U.S. troops to Afghanistan...
...every investment has been a home run. Icahn jumped into video-rental company Blockbuster in 2005 when its shares were trading at between $9 and $10 apiece. They recently changed hands at 30 cents a share - Icahn remains a major stockholder - and the company indicated in a recent filing it will likely file for bankruptcy protection...
...read Brad Tuttle's article "Movies for Cheap" with interest, since Redbox, the DVD-rental company, is my family's new favorite thing [March 8]. I was surprised, however, that he and his wife stop at Redbox locations to check the in-stock availability of movies. A great Redbox feature is its phone app that supplies kiosk-location information and tells you which titles are available at individual locations...
...case for an aging sweet-potato vendor in the residential Ushigome neighborhood later that night. Wanting to remain anonymous, the seller does not give his name, but says he works 12 hours a day, seven days a week and barely makes enough to cover the costs of equipment rental and fuel. "It's a hard life," he says, and climbs back into his truck. He inches up the alleyway, passing a pair of glowing vending machines. The prerecorded sweet-potato song streams into a chilly night sky: "Yakiimo, yakiimo, hokka hoka no yakitate" (Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, fresh from...