Word: sublet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...package tours and Dick Clark was soldered together in a top-secret government warehouse. So proprietors aimed for the stratosphere and whiffed. Hotels supersized their room rates; tour operators assessed $1,000 cancellation fees; property owners in New York City and Miami put up their pads for sublet at five-figure rates (few takers, so far); British star chef Marco Pierre White tried and failed to auction off private parties at his restaurants at Sotheby's in London. Even in this boom time, the millennium is, like Yogi Berra's fabled night spot, so crowded nobody goes there...
...white middle-class son of hippie schoolteachers who finds himself increasingly troubled by the socioeconomic inequality that he sees all around him. He also happens to be a kleptomaniac. Kelly's crusade to redistribute the world's wealth begins when he drops out of Vassar, moves into an illegal sublet in Spanish Harlem and takes a job with the Miracle Moving company, which specializes in relocating rich clients...
...care for the infant daughter. Mrs. Iveson, Thaddeus' mother-in-law, suggests that he advertise for a nanny and agrees to help him interview the applicants. Four young women eventually arrive at Quincunx House, none of them found suitable for the post by Mrs. Iveson. She then volunteers to sublet her London apartment and take over Georgina's upbringing herself. Reluctantly, Thaddeus consents...
...week hunting for apartments in Cambridge while finishing an independent study paper on which I had an extension, imperfectly gleaning the superficial details of John Rawls between calls 5,634 and 5,635 about whether there were washer dryer privileges, kitchen and furnishings. I ended up getting a sublet from a woman whose daughter is about to marry my former English...
...realized this fact when my summer roommates and I first set foot in the house we had decided to sublet in Washington. We had searched for one on the Georgetown website under a list of student houses that were available for the summer, and we finally found one that could accommodate six people. The price was far cheaper than living in local dorms, which charged by the 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...