Word: deforestation
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...harder." IHG is going to have to do a good job of showing cash-constrained owners what returns they can get - and proving to road warriors that the changes have created a better hotel. "We've got to meet or exceed guest expectations consistently across the brand," says Bill DeForest, who counts one Holiday Inn among his 10 hotels and manages another, "or we're toast...
Kotok knows nothing about biofuels. He's more concerned about his tribe's recent tendency to waste its precious diesel-powered generator watching late-night soap operas. But he's right. Deforestation can be a complex process; for example, land reforms enacted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have attracted slash-and-burn squatters to the forest, and "use it or lose it" incentives have spurred some landowners to deforest to avoid redistribution...
...what's going on in Brazil. There's a frontier feel to the southern Amazon right now. Gunmen go by names like Lizard and Messiah, and Carter tells harrowing stories about decapitations and castrations and hostages. Brazil has remarkably strict environmental laws--in the Amazon, landholders are permitted to deforest only 20% of their property--but there's not much law enforcement. I left Kotok to see Blairo Maggi, who is not only the soybean king of the world, with nearly half a million acres (200,000 hectares) in the province of Mato Grosso, but also the region's governor...
...LONG AFTER DAVID Letterman discovered him in a student film, Calvert DeForest, reinvented as Larry (Bud) Melman, introduced the comic's first-ever late-night show on NBC in 1982. The earnest ex--file clerk went on to become Dave's fumbling, inadvertently hilarious lucky charm. Before retiring in 2003, he covered the 1994 Olympics in Norway, mock hawked products like Toast on a Stick and greeted tourists with hot towels at New York City's seedy Port Authority bus terminal...
...loading up of the early February calendar can only mean that huge pieces of real estate and population like California will get lots of campaign ads and literature but will see little of the candidates themselves. "Those states will see many political commercials and receive enough direct mail to deforest a small state," Masset wrote in a recent commentary. "But they won't be talking to candidates, which means candidates won't be talking to them...