Word: hiltonization
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What was once the center of the world now seems to lie on the remotest margins. It's hard to believe that this torpid, sand-colored town, with its bored Indian shopkeepers sitting outside foodstuff-and-luxuries stalls and camels grazing outside the (largely empty) Hilton Hotel, was once the Dhofar that Zheng He's ships (though not, it seems, the admiral himself) sought out, in 1432 on their seventh voyage. The Salalah Holiday Inn slumbers near the spot where old Chinese coins were once discovered. The classified section of the Oman Daily Observer reports that someone named Zou Shichui...
...sucker's game; the demonstrators might as well be on the payroll of the status quo. For in such circumstances, the general public - the sacred "People" in whose name the protesters claim to act - tends to support the cops. I remember standing on Michigan Avenue, outside the Hilton, that night at the Democratic convention in 1968, when the police cut loose against the anti-war demonstrators. All the media and the right-thinking people were horrified. But the general public supported the cops, and judged that the demonstrators had it coming...
...evening of Wednesday, June 13, Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric, retreated to his room at the Conrad Hilton hotel in Brussels and wrestled with an unfamiliar feeling--one of impending defeat. Just eight months before, he had, it seemed, pulled off a stunning coup. Welch had always coveted Honeywell International, whose business making advanced electronics for the aviation industry, he thought, made a perfect fit with GE, one of three leading global manufacturers of airplane engines. In October 2000, during a visit to the New York Stock Exchange, he had learned that United Technologies Corp.--whose Pratt & Whitney division...
...charged up and I'm off to the office for the first time in six months. Fortunately, the car remembers the way and navigates the traffic while I chat on my video pda with my brother who's vacationing at the Lunar Hilton. (The reception is fuzzy. Network congestion...
...first to be controversial. The power to pardon assumes that due process will fail and that Presidents and Governors will have the wisdom and good conscience to remedy its failures. The sad truth is that these officials are cut from the same cloth as the rest of us. BOB HILTON Iowa City...