Word: sheraton
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...ambassador to a government without a country, Gnehm found his diplomatic skills tested almost daily at the Sheraton Hotel near Taif, Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwaiti leadership waited out the occupation. Tempers frayed, decisions were postponed, depression was common. A real crisis arose when Iraq started dumping Kuwaiti oil into the gulf in January. The Saudis and Kuwaitis argued over what to do. It took 48 hours of patient haggling, but Gnehm finally got both sides to agree: U.S. bombers would blast Al-Ahmadi oil facility's manifolds to stem the flow. Gnehm's best trick was getting Kuwait...
Gardenburgers are not meant to taste like Big Macs. "We don't put in artificial hamburger flavor," says Wenner. "The Gardenburger is its own experience." The burgers have sold well in such outlets as the Hard Rock Cafe chain (where they cost $7.95), Sheraton Hotels, Disneyland and Portland restaurants (where they go for $2.95). Wenner expects to sell 8 million patties this year...
Never was the collective and irrational vilification of the press any clearer than at the Silber election night reception. Even before the candidate's lead in the early returns had faded, a fraction of his diehard followers, gathered at the main ballroom of the Prudential Sheraton, were itching for a fight with the assembled media...
From staunch conservatives to loyal Democrats, about 100 college students flocked to John R. Silber's headquarters at the Boston Sheraton to wait out the election results...
...with Safire in tow, rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...