Word: hiltonization
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...Cambridge has given me another chance. It's fair to say that pre-Harvard, I viewed college as a chance to "set up" four more rooms. And nothing preoccupied my thoughts more than where I would live. I desperately longed for Grays, which I had heard called the "Harvard Hilton." Instead, Canaday welcomed me. Undeterred, my suite-mates and I dreamed of constructing another level in our top floor Canaday room last fall. They, like me, had hopes of making a mind-blowing Harvard dorm room. However, nothing special ever came from our lofty designs...
Under the guidance of several executives--notably former Information Services Manager Michael A. Schoen '93 and Business Manager Elizabeth S. Hilton '92--a dozen IBM compatible computers were installed in the newsroom, along with Macintosh workstations for graphic design and layout...
...golf lessons or a new set of clubs, for example? The American Express Golf Card, an Optima card issued with Callaway Golf, was designed for that. Or how about dollars off hotel rooms or a chance to rack up frequent-flyer miles? Among other programs, American Express offers Hilton Optima and Delta AirLines Skymiles cards...
...CNBC under which it would provide Dow Jones' business news to the CNBC and MSNBC cable channels. Earlier this year, Dow Jones launched WBIS+ in New York City with ITT. But ITT forced a sale of the station after that company became the target of a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. "Our New York television adventure can only be described as a detour," says Dow Jones spokesman Richard Tofel. "It didn't get us to where we were going." But with its large shareholders showing signs of unrest, wherever the company is going, it had better get there fast...
...industry's insistence that it's a wholesome entertainment business sometimes gets it in trouble with the public. When the Hilton Flamingo Casino participated in a job fair in March at a Kansas City, Mo., grade school, the sight of children wearing casino T shirts and singing the riverboat's theme song received critical coverage in a local newspaper. Then there was the woman who tried to have her dead husband's name removed from the mailing lists of the Station Casino, which Sharon Willman is having trouble with. She was told that the only way to have his name...