This has resulted in a glut of empty offices and apartments across Asia.
The morning the presses stopped, pro-reform editors huddled inside their empty offices, trying to plot their comeback.
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At present, empty industrial premises pay nothing, while empty offices and shops pay 50% of the full rate.
At night, he has has slept in government hospitals, abandoned buildings, empty offices - cold, impersonal public buildings that are the last refuge of a hopeless vagrant.
The two sides, which rarely agree on anything, say the bridges cost the Spanish economy hundreds of millions of euros in lost production, as they result in idle plants and half-empty offices.
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Demand for new buildings is far lower: empty shops and offices attest to ample unused capacity.
The government had already amended the legislation so that firms occupying shops or offices empty for at least a year could still apply for a 50% business rate discount for 12 months.
The offices remain empty until staff members are designated by Obama's team and cleared through the White House.
It is early days, but most of the offices are empty.
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Rents fell, offices were left empty, fashionable hotels were mothballed for lack of guests.
Other shops and offices remain apparently empty.
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Many of Dewey's U.S. offices were closed or nearly empty in the past week, with 433 people laid off in New York alone, according to a notice filed with the state Labor Department.
In Paris, Mr Meier's Canal Plus head offices are downriver from Mr Gehry's now-empty American Centre.
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New York's Empire State Building, which has been derided by some in the real estate world as the "Empty State Building", has also had trouble filling out its offices.
It would also convert empty rooms on the second floor into additional work space for writers and scholars small offices, carrels and rooms with tables.
Dandong's city government has moved offices to the area, but the thickets of surrounding high-rise buildings remain unfinished and empty.
Low end wages are significantly higher in Australia than they are in the US. So are land prices (I know Oz is empty, but everyone lives in the few nice bits on the coasts) and thus the costs of offices, warehouses and so on.
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