Word: meridien
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Michel Serebecbere, maître d' of the Maurice Restaurant in New York City's posh Parker Meridien Hotel, last year noticed that business people were desperate for anything to take notes on during breakfast and luncheon meetings. They resorted to envelopes, blank checks or even $20 bills. Now executives find something more convenient. Sitting on the tables next to the salt and pepper is a small (2½ in. by 4¼ in.) gray-beige note pad with the legend, "Notes While Dining at the Maurice...
Pulse determines therapy. Western diagnoses such as stomach ulcers or colds have no translation into acupuncture treatment. A patient does not have a histological problem, but a problem in an imbalance meridien...
Acupuncturists regulate the meridiens and thus the qi in two broad ways. Both too little or too much qi can cause problems. If the patient has too much qi in one meridien, the acupuncturist disperses it by pricking quickly and then putting pressure on the aperture. Too little qi is "tonified" by allowing a needle to sit longer...
...Syria into a more open society. Middle-class Syrians who fled the Baathist coups are being wooed back with economic inducements, while foreign investment is being encouraged with guarantees of repatriation of profits. New hotels are being built, including a 350-room Damascus-Sheraton and a 400-room French Meridien. In the meantime, the old hotels and marketplaces are suddenly filled with Western and Japanese businessmen who sense the tantalizing opportunities that Economy Minister Imadi has outlined. If disengagement and peace work out, Damascenes will once again look westward. "We prefer the West," one government official said recently. "Not exclusively...
...Democrats. The few GOP candidates running were trounced, including Meridien's incumbent legislator, the first Republican in the capitol since Reconstruction...