Word: hiltonization
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...last time the gates of a Bangkok jail were thrown open to journalists, it was to watch a dozen or so drug runners each get a bullet to the back of the head. That was almost two years ago, at Bang Kwang, the infamous Bangkok Hilton. Thailand was in the grip of a methamphetamine binge, and the authorities hoped the bloody scenes would dissuade people from dealing in these "crazy medicine" pills. When Klong Prem's gates creaked open last week, it was to celebrate another kind of madness?where the only shots fired would be on goal...
...major convincing point is how everyone pays the exact same cost for living and some people are getting the Days Inn and some people are getting the Hilton,” Brennan said. “It’s a rip-off for my parents...
Like most market crazes, this one started in the U.S. Sales and spin-offs accounted for 35% of M and A activity on Wall Street last year, up from 21% in 2000. Companies like Tyco International and Citigroup are jettisoning divisions; others, including GE, the Hilton Group and Motorola, are expected to offload units soon. In Europe, the market is smaller, but it's growing exponentially. According to J.P. Morgan, sales and spin-offs represented 8.2% of pan-European M and A activity last year, up from 2.8% in 1999. In the same period, Europe's entire...
...says the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists? Camp X-Ray commander Marine Gen. Michael Lehnert came one step closer to moving all 300 of the Camp X-Ray "battlefield detainees" to suites at the Miami Hilton, reversing previously immovable policy and allowing them to make turbans out of their bedsheets - as long as the sheets were subject to inspection...
Overall, 10 rowers from the men’s lightweight team finished inside the top-80. Also, last year’s lightweight men’s assistant coach Andrew Hilton placed 10th in the international final pulling...