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...over, the procession of funerals will accelerate. This week, on the one-month anniversary of the attack, there will be a memorial service. To prepare, Vieira has plans to blanket the area with mental-health counselors, stationing teams in tents near the service and also at the nearby Sheraton hotel to provide support for families. Therapy tents near the Pentagon? It's the dawn of a new era. "We're more sensitive now," says Vieira. "America is more sensitive...
...such as Germany's Dresdner Bank and Royal Bank of Canada also contracted with Comdisco, cramming employees into its Queens facility, which had been outfitted with computers and IT support. Lehman Bros. moved hundreds of workers to its office in Jersey City, N.J., and rented 665 rooms at a Sheraton Manhattan hotel for 1,500 bankers and analysts, carting in fax machines, computers, copiers and desks...
...Richmond businessmen William Goodwin and Beverley Armstrong rescued it from the Sheraton chain, where it was on a "continuous slide with an occupancy rate of only about 50%," according to general manager Joe Longo. Guided by early photographs, management has spent close to $15 million to restore all the rooms to their former glory--and to add a fitness center, luxury pool, glass conservatory and a new courtyard entrance. Says Longo: "Anyone visiting the hotel now would find it difficult to identify a renovation...
...while checking into a Sheraton hotel on yet another business trip, I discovered that the hotel had its own guest-loyalty program, which I joined. By 1998 I had stayed the requisite number of nights with Sheraton to be elevated to the chain's Gold member status. Then in 1999, when Sheraton became part of the newly created Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., my points were merged into its newly launched Preferred Guest program. The Starwood system has two noteworthy features: there are no blackout dates, and you can stay free on points at any property in the 660-plus...
...with the agreement in force by Dec. 31, 2005. In a possible prelude to Quebec, an angry, stone-throwing minority of young people in a crowd of 2,000 anti-FTAA protesters had to be dispersed by tear gas outside the city's Sheraton Hotel on the first night of the ministerial get-together. If anyone is expected to invigorate the trade talks, it is George Bush, and his White House relishes the prospect of demonstrating hemispheric leadership. "Quebec City will put additional focus on the President's trade agenda," says Robert Zoellick, the top U.S. trade negotiator...