Word: oberoi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporal O mores! It has been some years since young women needed or wanted such protection. As a near convent in an area of singles bars, the once elegant hotel had sadly declined before its purchase last year by a partnership that includes the Oberoi Hotels of India, Asia's largest hotel chain. While reserving a wing for the 113 women who still live there (some of them for more than 40 years), the new owners have started to remodel the 22-story building as a conventional hotel open to everyone...
...view was soothing and so was the 80° weather: the two men chatting together by the sun-drenched pool of Aswan's Oberoi Hotel on the Nile might have been old friends planning their next family vacation together. But the impression was deceptive. For Israel's Premier Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, the relaxed atmosphere at last week's summit could not conceal troublesome problems ahead in giving "momentum to the peace process," as Sadat put it. The two leaders agreed to establish formal relations between Egypt and Israel...