Word: marriot
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...Last weekend a group of more than 50 conservatives called the House Republican Study Committee gathered for their annual retreat at the Marriot Hotel in Baltimore. Despite their modest name, the group is composed of some of the Capitol's staunchest conservatives. In Bush's first term, they quietly complained about policies they abhorred, such as Bush's education law that widely expanded the reach out of the federal government into determining how local schools measured success and huge expansion of Medicare. They're quiet no more. The group, led by Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, put a statement of principles...
Most of the hopefuls shared not only romantic aspirations but a dream of making it big, at least in the way that Evan Marriot and Trista Rehn are big. Jimmy, a bartender at News 24/7 was clear about his acting dreams. “I don’t watch TV,” he says, “I want people to watch...
...teaming up, the Houses took a step up in location. The Leverett-Lowell-Winthrop formal took place in the swanky Bay Tower Room, 33 floors above downtown Boston. Recent Lowell formals had taken place in-House and at the Cambridge Marriot and the Tremont Hotel in Boston...
...Comdex, for those non-techie types lucky enough to have never attended, is the annual computer convention, the largest of its kind. It is a vast, sprawling mess that swallows the Las Vegas convention center along with several surrounding hotels (Microsoft, for example, took over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance...
Students bearing signs with slogans such as "Get my tuition out of Marriot" and "Harvard + Sodexho = Private Prisons" marched from the Science Center to Mass. Hall and then to the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), seeking support for their cause...