1.   A block east, between Madison and Park, you can cut rents in half.

2.   Cutting the rent subsidies without also renegotiating the mortgages would send many landlords into bankruptcy, he said.

3.   He was told that the rents had been cut to lure people back downtown and that he could probably afford something larger.

4.   Like many landlords, Heyman said, Trinity cut rents to help printers survive.

5.   While consumers are starting to buy more, department stores are also cutting costs by reducing advertising costs, cutting office rents and laying off part-time workers.

6.   Singapore will cut rents for small, home-grown manufacturers in an effort to keep beleaguered entrepreneurs in the economically sluggish city-state alive, a newspaper reported Saturday.

7.   Some landlords have cut rent by half, desperately trying to fill apartments above the dangerous streets, he said.

8.   The government and some property giants have cut rent for retail stores.

9.   They maintained that their rent should be cut by half to match those of the travel agencies.