Hands arranged financing to relocate the tenants, rent-paying and otherwise, and totally rehabilitate the building, but could not manage to get the bank to respond.

Dean Witter remains a rent-paying tenant at its downtown headquarters in the World Trade Center, with a lease that expires early in the next century.

Many peasants fell into debt and were forced to become either hired laborers or rent-paying tenants of the land-owning classes.

It would also turn the orchestra, now led by Lorin Maazel, from a rent-paying tenant into a managing partner.

The police said they understood the men were not rent-paying tenants but were being aided by the victim.

Earlier this year, the group was instrumental in improving the city's law to protect rent-paying tenants in buildings converted to cooperatives.

Because the trust allows the Shenkmans to keep living there rent free, from the perspective of the tax code the children are landlords stuck with a house without a rent-paying tenant.

Priced Out of Apartments Ms. Norman believes that her own transformation from rent-paying tenant to squatter reflects the tensions in the neighborhood.

It would also bring Mr. Silverstein a rent-paying tenant - "That always helps," he said yesterday - that needs space at altitudes where many office workers feel uncomfortable.

Until they built their own ballyard in 1923, the Yanks were merely rent-paying tenants in the Polo Grounds, junior partners to the mighty Giants.