Word: inns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour and a half after the senior eights final, the oarswomen were back on the course again for the elite sprint, which climaxed an exhausting but exhilarating week (and year) of rowing for the Radcliffe boat. Team members reported from the Holiday Inn in Oakridge that a good time...
...fewer Help Wanted ads, a sure sign of economic stress. Had he stopped in Blair, Neb. (pop. 6,300), the people who live along the highway could have tipped him off that because of soaring gas prices, auto traffic was way down. Had his family stayed at the Holiday Inn outside New York's Kennedy Airport, he could have got the message from travelers having to pay $58.32 a night, a message that sounded slightly different when his official experts delivered it to him a few days...
...watched TV and, with a nurse's assistance, even stood briefly. Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, was making a slow but steady recovery from gunshot wounds that felled him in the parking lot of the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Ind. But the police and FBI were making little progress last week in tracking down the would-be killer of the civil rights leader...
Only five hours after he delivered this warning-and affirmation of faith in his country-Vernon Jordan, 44, president of the National Urban League and one of the nation's foremost black leaders, drove back to the Marriott Inn where he was staying in Fort Wayne, Ind. As he stepped from the fire-engine red Pontiac Grand Prix, a burst of rifle shots shattered the muggy night. Jordan slumped against the trunk of the car, then collapsed on the pavement, his head resting near the left taillight. He was alive, but he had been grievously wounded by two bullets...
Still police did not rule out the possibility that the shooting had a racist motivation. Indeed, Coleman told police that while she and Jordan were returning to "ELLS the Marriott Inn, three white youths in a car had taunted them. Police doubted that the youths had time enough to race to the motel and shoot Jordan...