Each is engaged in a collectively self-defeating, yet individually rational, attempt to take rent from the other.
Mezals sometimes collected the workers' pay himself or had it paid into his personal bank accounts, or in other cases waited for workers in his minibus to take rent and purported debts from them as soon as they were paid.
This is a significant number because of Facebook's plan to force its application developers to use its proprietary currency, Facebook Credits, so it can take rent from all of the transactions happening on the site.
If we're given the option to take renter's insurance, why shouldn't we take out insurance on our ovaries?
Who do these property owners think they are, trying to take renter's rights to doing fun, messy, dangerous, federally-illegal activities in the properties they own?
Taking rents in Midtown South, she said, are a much larger percentage of the asking rent than in areas of softer demand like Downtown.
When 1984 rolled around, the council stopped taking rents.
White was driving a car registered to Steven Sadler, who was identified by post office employees as having been the man who took rented safe deposit boxes.
