11.   If they manage to stay in the black, it usually is because their long-term leases enable them to pay low rent.

12.   In cities like Paris, Stockholm and Berlin, they have found steady work, low rents, congenial audiences and a more hospitable racial climate.

13.   In many decaying inner cities, the low rents for empty stores provide an opportunity for immigrant merchants.

14.   In Wichita the Courtneys bought a house in an area marked by squat duplexes, low rent and traffic noise.

15.   Lured by relatively low rents and a bohemian feel, computer-based companies have poured into San Francisco and helped pull the city out of a recession.

16.   Nor, she said, does the law allow them to displace those paying low rents.

17.   On-line selling is seen as a little too low rent, and a large part of the cost of any luxury item is its exclusive image.

18.   Real-estate executives say the decline of garment manufacturing in the area, low rents and excellent access to transportation will lure more office tenants to the area.

19.   So, the Bronx landlords, seeing maintenance costs rise and stuck with the same artificially low rents, resorted to new, vastly more desperate measures.

20.   Stephen Heyman, director for leasing at Trinity Real Estate, said the church could no longer afford low rents and special deals for printers.