Word: sheratons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means exempt. On Dec. 15, Peter John Zarate, 40, a real estate executive and father of four living in Mexico City, was shot and killed by taxi pirates in the posh Polanco neighborhood. Just days before, another U.S. businessman was savagely beaten after stepping into a taxi outside the Sheraton Hotel, next door to the U.S. embassy. A week earlier the U.S. manager of an Acapulco hotel was kidnapped by men wearing police uniforms...
...jungle. By that time she had begun using artificial plants because they were easier to work with and clients seemed to like them. She has since created everything from a replica of Arizona's Sonoran Desert for an Atlantic City, N.J., casino to a European country garden inside the Sheraton in Lima, Peru...
...sector where synergy is working well for Alwaleed is hospitality. He has quietly become one of the largest private investors in, and owners of, hotels. And not coincidentally, hotel values and returns are soaring, as the recent battle for ITT Corp. (Sheraton) has demonstrated. His goal is to create, with international partners, a web of four- and five-star hotels around the world. He currently owns 50% of the Fairmont group, 30% of Movenpick, a Swiss chain, and 25% of the upmarket Four Seasons chain. He is the sole owner of the deluxe George V in Paris and owns half...
Looks like checkout time for Hilton Corp.'s Stephen Bollenbach. After an entertaining nine-month battle, replete with name calling, to buy ITT and its prized Sheraton properties and Caesars hotels and casinos, Bollenbach came up empty. But the escape from Hilton cost ITT its independence. Fearful that ITT shareholders would accept Hilton's $70 a share offer in two weeks, ITT chairman Rand Araskog pulled a rabbit out of a hat by agreeing to sell ITT to Starwood Lodging for $82 a share. That's 17% more than Hilton's "final" offer...
...bulletin board in the Reception Area of OCS. Be sure to check the Newsletter or the lists in the Recruiting Office for the time and location of the meeting, FC=Faculty Club, OCSCR=Office of Career Services Conference Room, CH=Charles Hotel, IH=Inn at Harvard, ShC=Sheraton Commandor. This is your opportunity to research the companies and network by attending as many meetings as you can. In doing so, your decisions on who to apply to, should become a lot easier...