Word: sonesta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black men maneuvered metal grocery carts through the crowd, scavenging for returnable beer cans. French Quarter etiquette encourages you to leave your can in the gutter for these people to find--it's the only neighborhood I know that practices philanthropic littering. Outside the Royal Sonesta Hotel we saw three obliterated I.U. students trying to help a scavenger by bellowing up at the people carousing on the hotel balconies to throw down their empties. An answering rain of hard metal cans showered to the pavement, along with an inflatable sex doll on a string. Those who were sober enough...
...world explorer, a man equally at home in the forests of New Zealand and the trackless Arctic tundra, tried to find his way in a rented car from Logan International Airport to the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Forced into a high-speed exit decision at a rotary, he soon realized that he had made a wrong choice. He was immediately and irretrievably lost because there were nothing but cross-street signs, so he could not find where he was on the map clenched in his fist. Cursing the lack of street signs, he asked a cabbie for directions...
While a falling dollar may limit the bargains available to U.S. travelers who venture overseas, it should boost the domestic tourist industry. In Florida, which boasts attractions ranging from Disney World to Miami Beach, hoteliers and resort owners expect a hectic year. Arnold Keithlin, marketing vice president of the Sonesta Beach Hotel on Key Biscayne, met last month with European travel arrangers and came away beaming: "They were forecasting a 35%-to-45% increase in their use of tourist facilities here this summer because of the depreciation of the dollar. They are all very bullish, very optimistic...
...many as 20 contractors may bid, Vickery said. "Apparently it's an excellent time to do this sort of work because contractors are hungry," he added. Other parts of the development package, including a 104-room expansion of the Sonesta Hotel, will begin in the spring, Vickery said...