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Discreet discounts, on the other hand, are all the rage. Priceline, for example is expanding its roster of top-flight inns. "Hotels that we've wanted for a long time, like five-star hotels, are coming in," says Chris Soder, president of North American travel. Yesawich explains that hotels are taking a portion of their inventory, maybe 20 to 50 rooms, and selectively discounting them in this opaque way. "Even a modest rate is better than no rate...
...calls them to a meeting at the National Football Center, a grand name for a spartan two-story building set amid rice fields in the Bangkok boondocks. "It feels like a rehab clinic," grumbles one of Reid's staff. On the desk in front of him is the squad roster, a pristine copy of a book called English-Thai: The Fun Way to Learn the Language and a three-page cheat sheet of footballing phrases in Thai. Reid studies it. "Poo rack sah bra too," he says hesitantly. Phu rak-saa bpra-dtuu (goalkeeper). "Goalie," he grins. "Brilliant...
...Knapp, sophomore Michael Sadler, and rookies Bryan Panzano, Walter Peppelman, and Sean Murphy rounded out the Harvard lineup against a field that included nine teams in the top 25 and five of the top 10.The Crimson posted an 11th-place finish in the 44-team tournament. With an incomplete roster, Harvard looked to focus on the experience gained from facing such talented competition.“This is one of the top tournaments we’ll wrestle in,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “It’s extremely tough to gear...
...roster of corporations and financial institutions in line for government bailouts seems to grow, some public-policy advocates in Washington are calling on policymakers to focus more efforts on the nation's poorest. The ranks of the destitute are growing quietly but alarmingly as much of the world focuses on troubles surrounding Wall Street. "Recent data show poverty is already rising quite substantially," says Robert Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "There is a strong potential for more hardship and destitution than we have seen in this country in a number of decades...
...appointments based on skill rather than mere political affiliation is certainly a refreshing and encouraging transformation. Even if some of Obama’s selections come from previous administrations, their ideas still possess the potential to bring about change. After all, the most important change is not a new roster of names but rather the action Obama takes based on the advice he is given...