Word: inns
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...long time before the agency stops being politicians' favorite punching bag. No wonder the challenge of spending all that money seems to hold no joy for those grinding away at FEMA's National Response Coordination Center located in a sad annex behind a southwest Washington Holiday Inn. "The size of it is daunting. The speed with which it needs to be delivered is very difficult," says Bob Spaulding, project manager for Fluor Corp., one of the companies awarded $100 million to help provide temporary housing to nearly 1 million people in the region. To help quicken the pace of rebuilding...
...It’s a game every single day in the summer,” he says. “Long road trips. Hotels from Super 8 to Holiday Inn and all the way around...
...drugs they had. Hijackers shot the tires of fleeing vehicles, slapped the spares on after the owners escaped and drove the cars away themselves. Some police officers battled the looters; others joined them. As the floodwaters rose, EMS technicians told TIME they were left stranded at the downtown Hampton Inn by panicking cops who jumped into their private cars to flee the city. In the wretched Superdome, where several people died before they could get out, a young violinist took out his instrument and played a Bach adagio. "These people have nothing," he told a Los Angeles Times reporter...
...dozen Owens Valley springs have dried up, and water tables in places are too low to support once abundant native grasses and shrubs. In the West that has become a cautionary tale. "We don't want to be another Owens Valley," says Denys Koyle, owner of the Border Inn, on the Nevada-Utah line...
Executives at Nickelodeon Networks aren't kidding when they say they're going to take the Nick brand "everywhere that kids are." In May the Viacom-owned kids-entertainment company partnered with Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts to open the first Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn, a $110 million theme resort in Orlando, Fla. Drawing on the success of its wildly popular series like Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants, which racked up $1.5 billion in retail sales alone last year, Nickelodeon is positioning itself at the center of the technology-driven environment its audience inhabits. TurboNick, launched several weeks...