Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When business executives check into hotels these days, they quickly notice that the red carpet being rolled out is longer and plusher than ever before. Never has competition in the lodging industry been more fierce. As construction of new hotels has outstripped demand for rooms, average occupancy rates have dropped, from 70% in 1981 to a basement-level 65% last year. In | that tough climate, innkeepers are going all out to woo the customers who account for more than 70% of all hotel stays: business travelers. Many of the major hotel chains are giving corporate clients an office away from...
Because for nearly two centuries, the University has remembered the Revolutionary War spy by maintaining his grave, which is located outside Paris. And every year since the Count died in 1815, a Harvard official has sent Rumford's gravekeeper a $50 check to ensure that the ignominious American's tomb does not fall into disrepair...
Sure enough, a check of the Kamiokande II detector in Japan disclosed that a burst of eleven neutrinos, with the predicted range of energies, arrived in a span of 13 seconds on Feb. 23, about three hours before light from the supernova was first observed. And data provided by the IMB (Irvine-Michigan- Brookhaven) detector under Lake Erie showed a burst of eight neutrinos in six seconds at the same time as the Japanese reading. Says Physicist Frederick Reines, of the University of California, Irvine: "One observation by one team is not sufficient; it has to be confirmed...
...goalie Ed Belfour held St. Lawrence in check after surrendering a goal to Dave Saunders at 1:17 into the first period. Rick Mulligan and Mike Hurlbut assisted on the St. Lawrence goal...
...have the freshmen show up, in numerical order, in groups of 50 at Memorial Hall. There they would make their house choices based on the availability of room in each house. If a rooming group found that their true first choice house (say Eliot) was full, it could check out the capacity of other popular houses before "settling" for Mather or Cabot...