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...west, Union Carbide is settling into its new corporate headquarters on a 674-acre site purchased in 1976 for $14 million. Near by is the Danbury Hilton Inn and Conference Center, which opened last summer to handle the flow of business travelers to Union Carbide. A 250-room Sheraton now on the drawing boards will compete with the Hilton for Danbury's new and generally well-heeled visitors. "This is a city in transition," boasts Dyer, leaning back in a leather chair in his modern wood-paneled office. "It is becoming a white-collar community...
...hunger, the setting for the conference was a trifle incongruous. Cancún is a lush, 14-mile-long island resort near the Yucatan Peninsula, studded with gleaming hotels and condominiums. Delegation leaders were assigned identical two-room suites, complete with terrace and Jacuzzi, in the pyramid-shaped Sheraton Hotel, hard by the Caribbean. On the day before the conference began, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos went waterskiing, while Reagan and his aides lolled away half an hour on the beach...
...York's Sheraton Center experienced a similarly large and abrupt rise in cancellations and no-shows, as well as a dramatic 75% drop in new reservations...
...made calls to Congressmen, and Dow Chemical urged its employees to contact their Representatives. At the heart of the corporate effort was the "No Name Group," a little-known gathering of Washington lobbyists for the Chamber of Commerce and similar business associations. At their weekly breakfast at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel last week, the lobbyists had been supplied by the White House with the names of 43 Democratic Congressmen whose votes might be winnable. No Name was ready. Since the Chamber of Commerce is a presence in cities and towns of any size, the wires started humming in critical congressional...
Salvadoran detectives summoned to the Sheraton Hotel after the shootings of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera managed to find not a single witness. But an American diplomat breakfasting in the Sheraton shortly afterward asked his waitress, Teresa Torres, if she had seen anything the night of the killings. "If I did," the woman replied, "I'm afraid they would kill...