Many were low-rent operations reselling long-distance at hefty markups.
But rent-seeking operations are really easy to undermine by regulation.
History of the Center, Leasing of property; general plans, award of contracts; building, renting, and operation.
The three main local bookshop chains, with a total of 51 outlets, are controlled by the Liaison Office, Beijing's official representation in Hong Kong, which, she adds, makes sure they only pay a nominal rent for their operations.
That was a reference to steps taken by Interpublic executives that have included paying down debt, reducing expenses like rent and selling operations deemed not central to Interpublic's major lines of business.
However, as The Huffington Post recently reported, the tribe's ownership of Plain Green is nominal at best: The company is part of a growing trend of "rent-a-tribe" operations, where off-reservation finance companies use tribal sovereignty as a shield to try to evade state lending regulations and consumer protection laws.
The recurrent items included personnel (salaries and benefits of surveillance officers, data managers, physicians, nurses, etc)., rent (rent, utilities, operation, and maintenance), office and laboratory supplies, transportation, public awareness campaigns and short-term training.
Virgin Mobile proved a telecoms operator could be a "virtual" operation renting capacity from other networks.
In addition to paying rent, many are franchise operations requiring them to pay significant fees to the franchisor.
In addition to the Coliseum upgrades, USC would pay for maintenance, operations and rent on the state land, but it would stop automatically sharing receipts from its highly successful football ticket sales.
The key to Valujevs and Mezals' operations was renting and then subletting property.
