Word: conquerer
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...ever expect to conquer the problems of excess weight, we must be willing to turn away from fad diets and use common sense, which tells us to eat less and exercise more. MARJIE GILLIAM Dayton, Ohio...
...hotel within a hotel." In addition to the 48 elegantly furnished rooms, the hotel's concierges are expected to do the unexpected. Says Fairmont Gold concierge Clarence McLeod: "We're called upon without any notice to provide last-minute miracles. Sometimes I feel like Superman. I can conquer anything." All starting at $329 a night. For the chains, creating these special sanctums is a response to the popularity of boutique hotels, which have siphoned off customers. With average room prices rising just 1.9% this year over last, says Bjorn Hanson, a hospitality-industry analyst at PricewaterhouseCoopers, this strategy allows hotels...
...determine whether the architectural centerpiece of the Games would get to wear its Santiago-Calatrava-designed cap or stand roofless under the Mediterranean sun - and whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium in time to complete their preparations. Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state...
...French personal-grooming behemoth L'Oreal, headed by Lindsay Owen-Jones. As it has done with so many of its 17 beauty brands--like the zany personal-care line Garnier or the ethnic hair-care concern SoftSheen/Carson--L'Oreal gave Maybelline a marketing face-lift and sent it out to conquer the world. "I had what was perhaps an unrealistic ambition," Owen-Jones, 58, told TIME: "to put a Maybelline lipstick in the hand of every woman in China...
...political commentator by trade, but with (until recently) an extraordinarily wide audience of 16 million, Stern has remarkable political power. Because his bias is neither consistently conservative nor consistently liberal, he enjoys a level of political credibility that more dogmatically motivated hosts can never hope to conquer...