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...hour with benefits or $8.64 without -- higher than the state minimum of $5.75. Now, in an effort that may be duplicated in other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex, unless they agree to pay the higher wage to their waiters, janitors, hot-dog vendors and others. Last week even GOP mayor Richard Riordan, seeking a $12 billion airport expansion, gave in to pressure from a labor-clergy alliance and extended the living wage to 2,500 airport bag checkers...
...almost certainly didn't notice, and you may shudder at the preposterous prematurity of it all, but most of the would-be presidents in the Democratic Party trekked to a hotel ballroom last week to take part in the first, unofficial scrimmage of the 2000 campaign. The occasion was the annual conference of the Democratic Leadership Council, the organization of self-described "New Democrat" centrists that Bill Clinton used both as a springboard to the nomination in 1992 and as an idea factory for such once un-Democratic proposals as reforming welfare and balancing the federal budget. Back then...
...interesting to note that the world is crawling with former brutal dictators who are currently living it up. (My parents, for example, vacationing in Paris a few months ago, found themselves in the same hotel as former Zairan dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.) And it's even more interesting that someone who kills one person is more likely to wind up in prison than someone who kills thousands. But what's most interesting about both of these facts is that neither of them seem at all remarkable...
...competition to snag companies. These loans date from the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and were aimed at "eliminating slums and blight." Today, TIME has found, HUD loans help bankroll such projects as a waterfront restaurant in Jacksonville, Fla. (it later went out of business), a downtown hotel in Philadelphia and an upscale fashion retailer in Spokane, Wash. In that case, a $24 million HUD loan arranged by the city of Spokane will go to construct a new store and enlarge a parking garage for Nordstrom...
...popular Web search engines, usually limited to esoteric keyword searches, are also of little assistance. Try the keyword search of "Seattle hotels" on Excite (http://www.excite.com/) and your top match will be a comprehensive description of a hotel-based closed-circuit television network. Fascinating, perhaps. Relevant, clearly not. And although more work with Excite is likely to obtain some better sources of information, doing such work is unlikely to be the best way to spend your time...