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...What's surprising is how rapid the decline has been," says Scott Berman, U.S. leader of hospitality and leisure consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even time-shares at top lodging companies are taking hits: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide reported a 48% decline in revenues from its vacation-ownership business in the fourth quarter, with the average price per unit plunging 31%. Similarly, Marriott International posted a 32% revenue drop in time-share sales. David Loeb, a senior analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., sees more pain ahead. He projects Starwood's vacation-ownership sales revenues to fall an additional 27% and Marriott...
...just been a force. She always leads by example and she has such a presence at bat and behind the plate.”Bock got the action going at the top of the second by blasting the day’s only homer—the fourth of her season and 11th of her career—to right-center to give the Crimson a 1-0 lead. BU overtook Harvard on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third with two scores of its own. With runners on first and second, the Terriers’ Melissa Dubay pounded...
...grandmother’s old Singer sewing machine, under my fourth floor window, and looked out over the white flower box filled with her pink, purple, and white impatiens. They tumbled over the sides of the box, pampered by her green-thumb treatment. That was 1993 and I was six years...
...while the sophomore Nutter kept the Crimson alive, the day belonged to the team’s seniors, who took the field in Harvard uniforms for the last time. Walsh got all eight of his seniors into the game, filling the top six slots of his starting lineup with fourth-years and sending both Cole and Watson to the mound.Douglas, Meehan, Rogers and Stack-Babich—arguably the team’s four best hitters this season—all drove in runs in their final appearances.Jon Roberts, who served as an outfielder and pinch hitter for the Crimson...
Roosevelt was enormously popular (hence the fourth term), and later administrations have tried to associate themselves with his early success. "Jerk out every damn little bill you can," President Lyndon Johnson reportedly commanded his strategist Larry O'Brien in 1965. "Put out that propaganda ... that [we've] done more than they did in Roosevelt's hundred days." Propaganda or not, Johnson actually had a very effective 100-day run: after being sworn in as Kennedy's sudden and unexpected successor, he advanced the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, established the Warren Commission to investigate J.F.K.'s assassination...