Word: marriott
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every day, U.S. commercial airlines buy and burn $31 million in gasoline and jet-aviation fuel. Air carriers are a primary market for companies as diverse as Boeing Co. of Seattle, the world's leading maker of commercial aircraft, and Marriott Corp. of Washington, B.C., a hotel, entertainment and food services company that daily provided approximately 180,000 meals aloft before the strike. Airlines may be more dependent upon computers and data-processing equipment than any other private sector of the U.S. economy outside of banking and finance...
...Brown University last week, sophomore butterfly ace KATHLEEN "MAD MAC" McCLOSKEY celebrated her twentieth birthday in fine style. Not only did she receive several cakes and a few singing serenades, but the team presented her with a rubber duck life preserver which she wore to lunch at the Marriott Hotel...Although co-captain and Rhodes Scholar DEBBIE JACOBS was prevented from competing in the Ivies because of a broken arm, she suited up--cast and all--for the 100-yd. freestyle and got onto the blocks to wave and smile when her name was called..Although the women's swim...
...Richard wanted to insure that Don stayed out of the headlines, especially once he became president. He arranged a job for his younger brother at the Marriott Corporation, where Don's last name worked such magic that one competitor grumbled, "I don't know if he's got 'vice president' or 'brother' on his business card...
Even the large hotel chains are checking into the small-hotel business. Hyatt Hotels' 225-room Park Hyatt will open on Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" next fall, replete with a tea salon and, in place of the conventional convention hall, a velvet-paneled library. Marriott has franchised the 228-room Galvez in Galveston, Texas, a once splendid Spanish-style hotel that was bought in 1978 by Houston Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley and a partner for $1.75 million. After a $10 million restoration, the Galvez is poised to reclaim its title as "Queen of the Gulf...
...watched TV and, with a nurse's assistance, even stood briefly. Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, was making a slow but steady recovery from gunshot wounds that felled him in the parking lot of the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Ind. But the police and FBI were making little progress last week in tracking down the would-be killer of the civil rights leader...