Word: gert
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...done a risk assessment like any prudent general. "It isn't like any other endeavor," he says. "It's enormously complicated. You're dealing with a lot of factors you don't understand." At one point when he was trying to decide whether to run, his wife Gert suggested that he put all his thoughts on paper. Clark tried but then discarded his notes. "I realized I couldn't quite get it down," he says. Is he too late? Too untested? Too new to the game? "You just basically have to announce," Clark says, "and take your chances." --With reporting...
...from executives on the ground: "Tourists shifted their travel habits during this period of time; they chose closer and less-expensive destinations." Philip Yong, a leading tour operator in Sarawak, says, "If it weren't for domestic travelers from peninsular Malaysia, [hotel occupancy] would be in single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words, travel is returning to where it began?an hourglass market, a place with...
After years of working for Democratic causes in his hometown of Sea Gert, N.J. and then at Harvard, Salzmann says he has now come to appreciate conservatism...