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Under threat of physical and sexual abuse, the vendors claimed, they were forced to sell trinkets up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for roughly 74[cents] an hour. Of the $400 each worker was paid monthly, $200 was siphoned off for rent. In a locked room off the areas scattered with mattresses, sleeping bags and bunk beds, police found evidence of their hard labor: $35,000 in cash, $10,000 of it in $1 bills. Within hours, five Paoletti clansmen and two others were arrested, but U.S. and Mexican authorities were still hunting for clan patriarch...
...junior year in high school, the girls in the Homecoming Court stopped wearing the hoop skirts reminiscent of the Old South because the principal said it was too expensive to rent and dry-clean the clothes. Though some might say that wearing such outfits was a silly custom, I think it is sad that a tradition so evocative of the region's heritage was stopped for such a pragmatic reason...
...night efficiency. Though law-enforcement officials won't confirm that Cunanan stayed there, Falin is convinced Cunanan is the man who checked into Room 205 two months ago, changed rooms three times and left a day or two before the Versace murder, still owing a night's rent...
...night, and the house had the added benefit of a kitchen and a backyard. The boys who lived there during the year, most of whom were on Georgetown's lacrosse team, would be back in September and were happy to leave us their furniture. We were ready to rent...
...Pebble Gifford, president of the HSDF, has spent decades worrying about--and fighting over if necessary--the Square's future. Development threatens the Square's charm by increasing traffic, building density and rent, not to mention the structures themselves...