Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brett Heckman, an attorney for Nathan Hall, yesterday. Hall, 18, is being prosecuted in the death of Alan Cobb, a skier with whom he collided while on the job as a ski resort employee. Prosectuors are arguing that a speeding skier is a weapon, much the same way as is a bat or a piece of wood...
...band began the evening by addressing the crowd of some 50 students and community members. After describing his troubled past, which included drug addiction and involvement in a Satanic cult, he proceeded to explain that his life had undergone a dramatic "change for the better," when, as a last resort, he decided to "ask God to come into his life...
...than in the slo-mo rental-car business, from which U.S. automakers have been peeling away as fast as they can (see box). Yet Silverman gladly paid $800 million last year for No. 2 Avis, a global brand that he views as a natural fit with his hotel and resort time-sharing businesses. After overhauling Avis, Silverman plans to sell a stake in the company to the public...
...What we try to do," Silverman says, "is assemble different brands that have huge internal synergies." Take yet another HFS business: time-share vacation properties. More than two million families are members of Resort Condominiums International, the world's largest time-share exchange network, which Silverman picked up for $825 million last year. "When members go to a time-share resort," he says, "they typically rent a hotel room on either side of the week [they have purchased], and obviously we have a hotel network to rent that room to them. Typically that owner will...
...part, Mexico, even as its diplomats fulminated about the dire consequences of decertification, took action to give Clinton cover. On Wednesday police arrested a drug trafficker named Oscar Malherbe de Leon. On Thursday the Mexican navy burned a ton of seized cocaine on the resort island of Cozumel. More substantively, Time has learned, President Zedillo will soon announce that he plans to scrap Mexico's existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan...