Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time was when the hotel industry mixed glamour and high finance in an intoxicating cocktail that attracted the most flamboyant entrepreneurs of the past century -- Conrad Hilton, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Cesar Ritz. But check in today at thousands of U.S. hostelries, including Hiltons, Sheratons and Marriotts, and your innkeeper will belong to a far more somber group: Citicorp, Wells Fargo Bank, Travelers insurance and others...
...pare his junk-bond debt, he has begun selling assets as fast as he once acquired them. What might be next? Perelman's advisers said the erstwhile raider could soon put on the block such tony cosmetics brands as Princess Marcella Borghese and Charles of the Ritz...
...Power dressing is out. One sign: shoulder pads, standard issue for the female corporate warrior, are finally disappearing from women's clothing. Even designers are getting into the act: Donna Karan and Bill Blass offer more congenially priced ready-to-wear fashion lines. Revlon's Charles of the Ritz has sprouted the cheaper Ritz Express skin-care line (1 oz. of Perfect Finish makeup: $10, vs. $25 for an ounce of Revenescence liquid foundation...
...scene at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Boston on the night of February 10 ended up more like something out of the Keystone Cops than the tea party the search committee had probably hoped for. Crimson reporters caught wind of the committee's plans to interview former Princeton provost--and now Harvard president-designate--Neil L. Rudenstine at the swanky establishment and had the place staked out well in advance...
...arms and wearing a black suit had been posted outside the meeting. The reporter evaded the guard's queries, but to no avail. In the hotel lobby, an employee dressed in a pristine uniform approached the journalist and asked him if he was a guest of the hotel. The Ritz had apparently put the reporter under surveillance, as the employee knew exactly which floors the reporter had been...