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...most part, hotels and airlines alike are scrambling to impress customers. "I saw this coming a long time ago and told my staff to prepare for it," says Steve Halliday, general manager of Singapore's 800-room Pan Pacific Hotel, which is located next to the convention center and caters mainly to business clients. Halliday recently outfitted the place with 200 computers to better serve his clients. "You've got to kill the customer with kindness," says Halliday. "In a word: service. Do things differently this year." In the current economic climate, the hospitality industry is finding that it takes...
...National Women's Water Polo "A" Team, which trains in California year round, is made up of the top 20 women's water polo players in the U.S. The squad represents the U.S. at the Pan Pacific Games, as well as at the Olympics in 2000. The National Women's Water Polo Association, to remain consistent with the National Men's Water Polo Association, decided to form National "B" Teams on each coast, as a developing ground for the "A" Team. The "B" Team-East and West Coast also compete in a number of national tournaments...
...asteroid disaster movie ever gets made again after this summer's glut, here's a good opening scene: Panicked scientist testifies before congressional committee. A mountain-sized space rock, he warns, "could hit tomorrow and we wouldn't even know it was coming." Pan across committee members wearing concerned expressions. Cut to spinning newspapers with alarmist headlines. Melt to crowds of city dwellers gazing anxiously at the heavens...
...Cafe is a Pan-Asian restaurant with a focus on sushi, and East Coast Grill serves up heaping portions of primarily fried and barbequed fish and meat...
...megacarriers are making life miserable for discount airlines. Five, including Pan Am, Sun Jet and Air South, have recently failed. The stragglers, which include Frontier Airlines and Reno Air, have lost a combined $200 million. The big airlines, by contrast, logged record earnings last year of more than $5 billion, a rise of 28%, their fourth consecutive annual increase. No wonder. In the past year, business-class fares have increased 16%, and average air fares have risen 9%. Meanwhile, the price of jet fuel, the airlines' biggest cost item, keeps dropping...