Word: fairmont
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Indeed, for the organizers of some of the millennium's most ambitious bacchanals, Dec. 31, 1999, may just have come a decade or so too late. There's something a bit retro, a shade Dynasty-esque, about such gilded offerings as the Chicago Fairmont Hotel's two-night suite package for two at $306,426--which includes a party for 10 with Dom Perignon and beluga caviar, as well as a 2000 Lamborghini Roadster. ("We'll even throw in a tank of gas," says public relations director Susan Ellefson.) The late-1990s boom is a time of less conspicuous...
...hired when it came to FBI background checks concerning illegal drug use. Bush was at first confused, and he gave his stock answer about not cataloging the sins of his distant past. Then he and his team piled into the motorcade to head for a fund raiser at the Fairmont Hotel...
Scope out the celeb fashion winners and uglies at the live simulcast of the 71st Academy Awards, hosted by KISS 108's Matty in the Morning and sponsored by the Friends of the Massachussetts Film Office. The Oscars at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel's Eighth Annual Academy Awards Gala Benefit lets you schmooze with members of the Boston glitterati. Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. $150. Call 973-8804 for invitations...
...owners of, hotels. And not coincidentally, hotel values and returns are soaring, as the recent battle for ITT Corp. (Sheraton) has demonstrated. His goal is to create, with international partners, a web of four- and five-star hotels around the world. He currently owns 50% of the Fairmont group, 30% of Movenpick, a Swiss chain, and 25% of the upmarket Four Seasons chain. He is the sole owner of the deluxe George V in Paris and owns half of the Inn on the Park in London and the Plaza in New York, plus 17 other luxury hotels. His blueprint calls...
...North Vietnamese troops were during the Vietnam War. The descriptions of their booby traps were unbelievably gruesome. Alas, now I find our own Marines have been every bit as barbaric and gruesome. It seems to me the U.S. Marines could indeed use a few "good" men. BOB MOFFETT Fairmont, West Virginia...