Then there is no electricity - very few villagers can afford to rent a line from a creaky generator which fires up once a day.

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In a statement it said it was "disappointed" by ACL's decision to issue a statutory demand, rather than "negotiate a level of rent which the club can afford and which is in line with the rent paid by other clubs".

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When your child needs to rent an apartment or, further down the line, buy a car or a house, he or she will have a credit history and, hopefully, a high credit score that will make it easy to qualify for a rental or a loan.

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The suits in Tokyo were so fed up with the company's low-rent reputation that they decided to launch a premium line to prove Toshiba is indeed capable of making high-end machines.

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If the law passed, we were warned, Israel's democracy would be rent asunder as judicial nominees would be forced to toe the line of nefarious political forces yanking at their newly nailed on strings.

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The fissure rent by this plurality as it escapes partisan captivity will be the fault line around which a party realignment occurs in America.

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