1.   Now those landowners have become greedy and demand high rents - and we help to exploit the peasants by levying crippling taxes.

2.   They have high mortgage costs, high rents, high transport costs and high bills of many varieties.

3.   Low-income families claim they are being squeezed out of the neighbourhood by high rents.

4.   And finding themselves required to produce the extraordinary financial credentials that made them acceptable candidates to pay a high rent.

5.   A sluggish industry, increased competition, high rents and outmoded restaurants contributed to the problems of the chain, the company said.

6.   Brokers said it illustrates the current dilemma facing companies that preleased space at high rents in a hot market.

7.   But although Bell Atlantic is offering increases to longtime retirees, activists describe the raise as too little in an era of high rents, food and transportation costs.

8.   But Kenneth Jackson, chairman of the history department at Columbia University, said it was crucial that the archives remain in New York, despite the high rent.

9.   But the authority declined because it considered the rents too high.

10.   But Woluewich said high rents have caused the boom to skip New York City.