Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Institutions don't change in quality from year to year--that's just U.S. News changing its formula," he said. "True quality means a lot of things to a lot of people, and U.S. News doesn't take that into account...
...impressed," Baker said. "This was the first time any of the freshmen have raced and already they are key contributors to the team, helping to account for a very strong team effort, an effort especially strong for such an early-season meet...
With occupancy rates falling and the room supply outpacing demand in the $93 billion U.S. hotel industry, the big powers are thinking small. Even though boutiques still account for just a fraction of the total market, the chains "don't really have a choice," says Chekitan Dev, marketing professor at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. "For all practical purposes, the traditional hotel is obsolete. There's too much wasted space, it doesn't look inviting, and there's an erosion of brand loyalty." Starwood Hotels & Resorts chairman Barry Sternlicht tried in vain to lure Schrager to his camp...
...first part of this reminiscence is fictional, although some of the specifics are true. I have never met Edmund Morris. The account of the interview in Sacramento is true, or is at least my best recollection...
...however, the fact/fiction bipolarity erodes some of the book's brilliance. The reader begins to doubt Morris even when he describes events without resorting to dramatic trickery. His account of Reagan's summit meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland is so vivid as to make it seem Morris sat with the two leaders. In fact, Morris admits he was not there; he went to Iceland later and, relying on interviews, "enjoyed the scribe's traditional advantage of being able to recollect emotions in tranquility." Morris' brilliant portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's rise to the presidency was of course built from...