Word: mattress
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...kept-real" greeting as part of a new staff-training program, the scent of green tea and ginger in the lobby (as opposed to chlorine from the pool) and a sound track that includes Sting and Bruce Springsteen. And when you step into that room - surprise - a pillow-top mattress with crisp white triple sheeting, a flat-screen television, a bright bathroom with a starched shower curtain and upgraded amenities from Bath & Body Works. Stuff you'd expect to find at higher-priced outfits. Which may leave Holiday Inn better positioned at a time when travelers are trading down...
...discover booty in the salt mines at Altaussee in northern Austria. There, Hitler's troops had stored 10,000 of their most prized pieces, including Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges, a 4-ft. (1.3 m) marble statue found "lying on her side on a filthy brown-and-white mattress." The Monuments Men wrapped her in coats, paper and rope before placing her in a cart. "I think we could bounce her from alp to alp, all the way to Munich, without doing her any harm," an American conservationist said at the time. Instead, they sent her to Belgium. After...
...walking along in the B entryway basement hallway going to the computer lab, and randomly saw a desk, mattress frame and whiteboard leaned against the wall, looking like they had been deserted there for a while. Thinking this was left-over stuff someone no longer wanted, and hating for a whiteboard to go to waste, I took the whiteboard up to my room. It occurred to me, however, someone might have been temporarily storing their stuff there for later use. So I wanted to check: is this anyone's stuff? Was this...
...hoard your money under the mattress just yet. After all, the $9 trillion figure is just an estimate, and who knows what the economy will look like in 10 years. With any luck we won't be in a recession anymore, so revenue will be up and stimulus spending will disappear. The real budget problems lie in the long-term programs, such as Medicare and Social Security: Medicare's 2003 prescription-drug program has added nearly $1 trillion to the deficit and baby boomers' looming retirement will stress Social Security's already financially precarious situation. It's one thing...
...with 21 other men. For $167 a month, Lau gets the top bunk in what the government euphemistically calls a "bed space," or cubicle dwelling - a tiny rectangular area, partitioned by thin wooden slabs or steel mesh wire to safeguard the resident's belongings, barely large enough for a mattress...