Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short (5 ft. 7 in.), stocky man with a mustache and goatee, Smith has been a cab driver for the past five years, paying a daily fee of $16.50 to use a "rent-a-cab." From that investment he can expect $100 a week-in a good week-as personal profit. He is unmarried ("I'm all alone in this jungle," Smith told his lawyer, Oliver Lofton, a former aide to Under Secretary of State Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach). He rents a one-room apartment in Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines...
...Would you let some guy come along and take 50 per cent of your income as rent...
...which has been fighting a long, losing battle with Egyptian terrorists. He picked up another $28 million from Kuwait, and $20 million more from "private individuals"-half of that amount, a $10 million interest-free "loan" from Saudi Arabia's ex-King Saud, as part of the political rent he pays for his Egyptian asylum...
High Cost. Private flying across the Atlantic is by no means economical. A single-engine Piper Cherokee costs $8,500. To make a flight from, say, New York to London, a plane must have a complete high-frequency radio rig ($3,000 to buy, $300 a month to rent), an extra-large gas tank ($50) and survival gear, including life raft, jackets and flares ($35 a trip to rent). Then there are airport landing and service fees that range from a piddling $25 at Gander to a horrendous $300 at the air base at Sondre Strom, Greenland. There is insurance...
...China, which the proponents of the Vietnam conflict for a while bravely pictured as the deus ex machina, is rent within itself. Its assumed puppet in Hanoi, likes its earlier puppet in North Korea, has publicly asserted its independence. Not even the most ardent defender of the war can now believe that Hanoi wants to be part of a Chinese-led empire...