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...real-estate business. Under the plan, Marriott will split into two separate, publicly traded entities by mid-1993. The healthier operations will be reorganized as Marriott International, a company that will concentrate on operating hotels, resorts and food services. Meanwhile, the successor firm, to be renamed Host Marriott, will retain ownership of the 141 lodging properties and 16 retirement communities, plus airport and toll-road concessions. Host Marriott, whose businesses generated 19% of the existing corporation's 1991 revenues of $9.1 billion, will also assume practically all the existing company's $2.9 billion debt load...
...people bother to read. Theology is a dying art. Schoolchildren are ignorant of the Bible and hence bereft of their spiritual heritage. The postliterate era has been especially difficult for Protestantism, which depended so heavily upon rationalism and reading. Although old-style Protestants are shrinking in numbers, they retain outsize influence because so many of them remain book readers and are thus inevitably leaders of the economic ruling class on all continents...
...service is valued and respected, because I want to encourage America's young to pursue careers in government." Giving content to his rhetoric, Bush pushed for large salary hikes, echoing the Volcker report when he said the "pay gap is affecting the Federal Government's ability to attract and retain the skilled and motivated senior executives necessary to direct . . . complex, wide-ranging and critical functions...
...Harvard Square] needs to retain something of its old character," Epps says, "and Bartley's is one of the few places which represents that...
Though having apparently strayed from their earlier artistic innovation, INXS should still retain its hold on the commercial airwaves. The lazy sensuality of Hutchence's vocals and hypnotic layers of piano and rhythm on "Not Enough Time," the second single to be released from welcome, should prove an irresistible draw for Top-40 listeners...