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...directed to the private rooms or segregated sections of dining rooms; they feel an attempt is being made to separate foreigners from locals. Yet there appears to be genuinely hospitable planning behind the division. In addition to being cleaner, tourist sections provide menus with English translations. Nevertheless, foreigners who insist on being seated on the lower floors will...
...recipient of such news. Although something of an entrepreneur on his own, Swaggart had made no bones about his contempt for Bakker's "Christian Disneyland"; what's more, Bakker had taken Swaggart's show off the PTL cable network. (Swaggart says the squabble was over time slots; PTL defenders insist Bakker wanted to eliminate Swaggart because of his sharp attacks on Roman Catholicism...
These companies are plunging ahead with construction in the face of the industry's excess capacity, because many corporate clients now insist on all- suites establishments. Business guests like the suites for the desks and good reading light that are not usually available in traditional bedroom accommodations. The average occupancy rate of these hotels is nearly 70%, or about 6% higher than for all accommodations. The spacious suites are especially popular with women business travelers, who appreciate a room in which they can hold a meeting without sitting on the bed. While an average of 25% of hotel business guests...
...Instruction is not published as an infallible pronouncement but carries definitive authority as an exercise of the church's teaching power. The document, however, does more than insist that Catholics submit to its instructions; it also calls on governments to pass laws prohibiting a number of the controversial reproductive techniques. The Pope clearly expects his bishops to lobby for such statutes. The day after the text was published, the Italian bishops urged their nation's legislators to create a "legal order conforming to the needs of moral...
...individual fiefdoms of the Evening News, Morning News, Nightwatch and the weekend news, and toss all staff members into a "net first" news pool. Producers, correspondents and technicians will be assigned to the next breaking story, no matter what its program destination; despite trepidations at Evening News, CBS executives insist the program will have first call on personnel. With this system, Stringer argues, "you can use all your resources at a single time. Everybody can charge when necessary...