Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer of 1972, a team of Russian trade officials operating out of a New York Hilton Hotel suite coolly bought up-at bargain prices-one-quarter of the entire U.S. wheat crop. Their accomplishment is still being paid for in the form of appallingly high food prices by U.S consumers. The deal, moreover, probably helped bring about a long-overdue end to the era of taxpayer-subsidized underproduction on U.S. farms. The story of how the Soviets nearly managed to corner the market of a U.S. staple under the noncollectivized noses of agriculture officials, grain exporters and the President...
...graduates, who were vying for seven $20,000 positions. If a top student expressed a desire to work in a particular city, McKinsey sent him or her there for a look. One student even got a trip to the Paris office. Sea Pines Company, a recreational land developer in Hilton Head Island, S.C., surprised the business schools with a lavish recruiting program, contacting 15% to 20% of the graduates at Harvard and Stanford. The company invited 50 M.B.A.s to South Carolina and hired at least eight from Harvard...
...What is the point of "getting away" if we must carry all of our paraphernalia with us to insulate ourselves from a new environment [July 2]? Like the American tour ists who asked the hotel clerk whether they were in the Paris or the Madrid Hilton, campers may soon be asking each other if this is Nettles Island or Camperland...
Gurney also surprised Dean on a minor confusion about the hotel in which he had discussed hush funds with Nixon's attorney Kalmbach. Was it Washington's Mayflower Hotel, as he had testified, even though Kalmbach had been registered on that date at the Statler Hilton? After some sparring, Dean, prompted by his lawyer, said that he often confused the two and could have been mistaken, since the Statler Hilton's coffee shop is called the Mayflower...
...thee." All were moved when a tiny flag was carried into the tent and placed in a position of honor on the stage. Laboriously made from threads plucked from prisoners' uniforms, the flag had been flown at night by men confined in the prison called the Hanoi Hilton...