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DIED. J. (for John) Willard Marriott, 84, chairman of the Marriott Corp., who parlayed a nine-stool Washington root-beer stand started in 1927 into a $4 billion worldwide lodging and food empire that includes 142 hotels, 1,500 restaurants and flight kitchens serving more than 150 airlines; in Wolfeboro...
...members of the National Association of Manufacturers descended on Washington last week to lobby for the Danforth bill, which besides setting national standards for product-liability suits would establish a new procedure for speedy out-of-court settlement of claims for economic damages. They first gathered at the Marriott Hotel to swap horror stories and pep talks. Under present legal rules, "you're afraid to try anything, put any new product on the market," cried Gust Headbloom, president of Michigan's Apex Broach & Machinery Co. Peter J. Nord, president of Schauer Manufacturing Corp. in Cincinnati, which makes battery-charging machines...
...Johnson was impressed with the festival as a whole, particularly the treatment of the filmmakers. “I stayed overnight and they put me up in the Marriott,” he says. “They rented out a whole bar for us on Saturday night...
...will offer fitness equipment, including exercise mats and balls-all for around $20 more than the standard rate. Westin will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs in the fitness rooms too, and features two-minute yoga stretch instructions on its own TV channel in every room. Full-service Marriott hotels in North America offer three in-room exercise equipment options free of charge, including the BodyRev, a compact, portable free-weight system that provides a full workout, and the BodyWedge21, a large foam wedge that allows you to perform 21 full-body exercises on an incline. www.westin.com; www.marriott.com
...will offer fitness equipment, including exercise mats and balls - all for around $20 more than the standard rate. Westin will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs in the fitness rooms too, and features two-minute yoga stretch instructions on its own TV channel in every room. Full-service Marriott hotels in North America offer three in-room exercise equipment options free of charge, including the BodyRev, a compact, portable free-weight system that provides a full workout, and the BodyWedge21, a large foam wedge that allows you to perform 21 full-body exercises on an incline. www.westin.com; www.marriott.com