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...sharp pullback in business travel and weak consumer confidence have taken a crippling toll on hotels. In the first seven months of 2009, hotel occupancy was down 10.3% while average daily room rates are off 8.8%, according to Smith Travel Research (STR). At the same time, lodging stocks lost 80% of their value on average over the past year, although many have rallied back a bit in the past couple of months...
...example, standing on the corner intersection of the auto-care and crafts areas, you can look straight ahead and see where shoes, pet care, groceries, the pharmacy and other areas are located. And the discount price tags are still at eye level, so the value message doesn't get lost. (See how Americans are spending...
...Bosavi woolly rat). The historic find also included 16 new species of frogs, at least three new types of fish and one bat. "It was mind-blowing," George McGavin, a biologist with the BBC team, told England's Guardian newspaper. "The crater of Mount Bosavi really is the lost world...
...connections with all people who live and work at Harvard. Whether it means talking with someone who works in your dining hall or stopping to catch up with the janitor you’ve seen in the Science Center, you may learn that someone you see every day has lost an eighth of her salary and can no longer afford to pay rent. These human interactions are a key ingredient to having a respectful community, but they also contribute to the public’s understanding of how administrative decision-making affects real people...
...very odd thing." Plus, his decision to go public has come at a cost - mostly in the form of friendships with former colleagues. "They're not people I go out and have a beer with these days, that's for sure. But I'm not saying I've lost them as friends forever," says Potter. On the other hand, he adds, "I've got a lot of new friends...