Word: loy
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...Couples will love little touches like the nightly rituals based on Loy Krathong and Comb Loy. These festivals both occur in the twelfth month of the lunar year, but at the Banyan Tree Phuket they are celebrated every night - by making wishes and floating candles down the lagoon (a practice during Loy Krathong), or by writing a wish on paper, tying it to a giant lantern and watching it go up into the starlit sky (as the Thais do during Comb Loy). You'll head back to your villa afterward to find that the staff haven't left chocolates...
...Street - a narrow strip of historic buildings and art galleries. "I'm hoping that businesspeople will see the potential to make money," says Chu. At the Ning Hou gallery, a Shanghainese artist's abstract sculptures and impressionist paintings carry price tags as high as $50,000. Inside the Dai Loy gambling museum, exhibits show how punters used teacups and buttons for table games to disguise gambling paraphernalia from the police. Dealers also kept brass knuckles and lead pipes on hand in case of violence...
...Brendan Loy, another former editor who graduated in 2003, wrote in a separate letter that “the administration has for years been treating the ostensibly independent Daily Trojan like just another department under its thumb...
...Hurricanes One of the few good things to come out of Katrina, says former deputy security of homeland security James Loy, was that it forced officials in other hurricane-prone places to re-examine their emergency plans. "There are many other places in the nation that are now much better prepared," Loy says. Last month, Loy and former FEMA director James Lee Witt founded Protecting America, a coalition of emergency officials, first responders and insurers. The coalition suggested that Gulf officials learn from Florida's example when rebuilding their hurricane response capability. It is one of only five states that...
Throughout the flooded streets of New Orleans, if Coast Guard boat crews lost radio communication, they still knew what to do. "We give extraordinary, life-and-death responsibilities to 2nd class petty officers," says former Coast Guard Commandant James Loy, now retired and a senior counselor at the Cohen Group, a Washington consulting firm. Anna Steel, 24, a Coast Guard reservist from St. Louis, Mo., began navigating her 16-ft. skiff through New Orleans neighborhoods three days after the storm hit. She and her crewman brought 35 people to dry land at a highway on-ramp marked, appropriately enough, Elysian...