Word: rente
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...Some policymakers, activists and scholars say these are crimes of opportunity - and that the law may be helping to create that opportunity. Prostitution is a shadow profession in Hong Kong. It is technically legal, but traditional brothels are classified as illegal "vice establishments." Landlords who rent a single premise to more than one sex worker can face jail time. This means sex workers are forced to operate mainly as one-woman businesses out of their homes. There are approximately 1,600 one-woman brothels in Hong Kong, according to the Hong Kong police. Operating in isolation and without protection, these...
...rapidly falling prices of homes and lower interest rates on mortgages got the credit for the positive move. (See pictures of modernist houses for rent...
...Real Doll You may have a few other questions, most of them beginning, Why? Why would zillionaires rent human-bot experts and escorts from a high-tech flesh peddler when they could hire the real thing? Why would someone develop an amazing technology and find no more remunerative application for it than an illegal outfit that seems exorbitant to maintain and nearly impossible to conceal? And why--as eventually develops--would someone begin an equally elaborate counterconspiracy to sabotage the group...
...industry, retail holds on to people as long as it can. A store that closes means that inventory has to be moved somewhere else. It also means real estate and rent negotiations. A closed store is hard to reopen. The customers get in the habit of going somewhere else...
...Bryan is on the next flight to Paris, and the rest of the movie follows him as he combs the city's lower-rent arrondissements in search of, first, the Albanian nasties who abducted Kim and ultimately the movers and sheiks who will pay handsomely for the privilege of deflowering her. But to elevate Bryan to preternatural status, all his adversaries must be dim-brained klutzes who can't shoot straight. (He rarely takes on fewer than five at a time.) He also must leave Paris in rubble and his old friendships in shambles. Busting into the home...