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...Other names are looking to cash in: Sheraton and Marriott have opened high-end Pattaya resorts, and Le Meridien has a project under construction. Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, international p.r. director for Thailand's Tourism Authority, also predicts that the new growth will "divert, if not negate" attention generated by the city's racier side. And while he cautions that any transformation "will have to happen over a number of years," it nonetheless seems that the dubious legacy of the old U.S. airstrip may one day be eclipsed by Suvarnabhumi's economic blessings...
When a massive bomb took out the face of the Marriott Hotel Thursday morning in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, rocking the nearby US consulate and killing US diplomatic officer David Foy along with at least four others, the explosion could be heard from houses more than six miles away...
...experts differ on how high oil prices would have to go to wipe out the full value of the credit, but most agree that if oil were to remain at recent peak levels, or climb even higher, few synfuel operators could claim the full credit. Citing that uncertainty, the Marriott Corp., which has invested in four synfuel plants, temporarily suspended production in January. Before the shutdown, Marriott had racked up $370 million in synfuel profits...
...Evan Marriott, the lumberjack look-alike who feigned being heir to a $50 million fortune on Fox? Joe Millionaire? in 2003, wanted the $50,000 offered by producers but says he came off looking ?dumb as a doorknob? after a reporter tracked down a girl from his hometown who didn?t remember him too fondly. ?People thought I was the village idiot,? says Marriott, who has since steered clear of television and is back working on construction projects...
...Although he chalks it up to the race for ratings, Marriott says a number of scenes in ?Joe Millionaire? were altered in the editing room. When contestant Sarah Kozer finds out that he?s not a millionaire in one of the final episodes, the camera pans to a look of disgust on Kozer?s face. But that footage had been filmed hours earlier in response to a different situation, says Marriott. In another scene, Zora Andrich - who Marriott ultimately picked - angrily gets out of the hut tub when several other contestants barge in on her tub time with Joe Millionaire...