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...namesake so that the company can focus on its newer ventures, which include three hotel chains (Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns, Homewood Suites) and Harrah's casinos. The sale will also allow Holiday to reduce more than $2 billion of debt, most of it incurred during a 1987 battle to fend off a takeover bid by Donald Trump...
...hooker, it's not very welcoming," says the BWTC's marketing coordinator, Trisha Cochrane. In hotel bars, the survey found, a woman alone must often wait to be served because the bartender assumes that someone will be joining her. In the meantime, she is left to fend off the attentions of other patrons at the bar. Said a respondent: "I'm tired of being chatted up by every lonely salesman in Britain...
...ultimate price of inflated expectations and consumerist attitudes is the treacherous legal reality that confronts doctors today. Anything short of perfection becomes grounds for penalty. And once again, while it is the doctor who must pay the high insurance premiums and fend off the suits in court, the patient eventually pays a price. The annual number of malpractice suits filed has doubled in the past decade and ushered in the era of defensive medicine and risk managers. No single factor has done more to distance physicians from | patients than the possibility that a patient may one day put a doctor...
...rainy Budapest, beneath the huge statue of Lajos Kossuth, Hungary's greatest figure of independence, the President bounded down from the stage after brief remarks, stripped off his borrowed raincoat and wrapped it around a soaked, startled and utterly smitten old woman, who had to fend off other onlookers grabbing for her new prize...
...Sidney (Paul Mazursky), who materializes and pledges his infernal love to her. Clare's neighbor, Lisabeth (Mary Woronov), has just moved in with her daughter Zandra (Rebecca Schaeffer) because the exterminators are at her house, removing every trace of her ex-husband. Now these women and two others must fend off, or hop on, a platoon of randy males: Lisabeth's wormy ex (Wallace Shawn); her playwright brother (Ed Begley Jr.); her invalid prodigy son (Barrett Oliver); and two manservants, sleazy, pansexual Frank (Ray Sharkey) and Juan, the sensitive stud (Robert Beltran). "We're from different stratagems of society," Juan...