Word: marriott
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...this year. Asia is also rebounding from last year's devastating SARS season: compared with 2003, Asian airlines' passenger traffic was up 108% in May, according to IATA, and international arrivals in April rose 120%, reports the WTO. Hotel business is on the upswing too. Says John Wolf, a Marriott International spokesman: "We're experiencing strong leisure-travel demand globally." But the tourism trade can't rest easy yet: more people may be leaving home, but the WTO says they're likely to spend less money than they did four years...
...movements still rage, and her administration is brutally suppressing one of them in the western province of Aceh. Her response to the threat of Islamic militancy has been perceived in some quarters as indecisive, even following the deadly Bali bomb blasts and last year's attack at the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Jakarta. She encouraged a competent and thorough investigation of the Bali bombings, which led to the arrests of more than 30 Muslim militants and key players in the network of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI). But Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation...
...Thoia Thoing” to the infectious Arabian flutes of “Snake,” Kels has more flavors than an ice cream truck. On “Fiesta remix,” he began his fruitful love affair with the Spanish guitar, which biographer Rob Marriott describes as “R’s equivalent to Muhammad Ali’s phantom punch, a light touch capable of knocking a body out.” But while fame and fortune have allowed him to jet set around the world, Kelly never lets go of his roots...
...account, I wanna spend it.” But blink an eyelid, and the R transforms into a spiritual guide. “I Believe I Can Fly,” it is safe to say, is one of the most uplifting ballads of our era—as Marriott so aptly explains, “[It] was a song so universal, it made both gang-bangers and soccer moms dream of better things.’” The fact that my mom used to bump it out of her Dodge Caravan is only further evidence...
HRES moved students into the complex in waves—the last of which occurred in December. While they waited for their apartments to be completed, graduate students stayed at the Marriott Residence Inn in Kendall Square and the Marriott Boston Cambridge Hotel at HRES’s expense...