Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Space squeeze lifts rates, profits and hoteliers' spirits...
...film California Suite, and the Los Angeles Marriott, a 1,020-room slab within easy earshot of the airport runways, is expected to hit 100% occupancy for more than 150 days this year. The squeeze is much the same in Detroit (where guests sometimes have to settle for space in Ann Arbor, an hour's drive away), New York (where 1,000-and 2,000-room hotels are often fully booked), Atlanta (where a couple of large conventions had to be refused because there were no rooms for the requested dates),' and most other U.S. cities...
...Space is tight, and hoteliers are smiling because of the boom in business travel and conventions, which together bring well over half of the business. As a result, the squeeze is worst on working days. Tourism is also up because of the decline in airfares, and the devaluing of the dollar has lured many foreigners to U.S. hotels. A record 2 million people from abroad visited New York City last year, an increase of 8% over 1977. Says a manager at the chic Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where foreign guests have risen from 10% of the clientele ten years...
...view held by other black intellectuals. His argument: "Regulatory rules have impeded people who are climbing rather than people who are already at the top. There is a fundamental conflict between the affluent people, who can afford to engage in environ mental struggles, and the poor people, who need space and access to recreation. If you're talking about keeping the coastline pure enough for the standards of the Sierra Club, you're talking about keeping the people living in Watts down in Watts. You don't see many black faces in the Sierra Club...
Leonard Woodcock, chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking, warns that the establishment of a U.S. press corps is "going to be a long, difficult process." Apartments and office space are virtually unavailable in Peking, and most of the news organizations will end up scrambling for long-term leases on some of the city's 5,000 suitable hotel rooms. If necessary, quips CBS News President Richard S. Salant, "we'll put our correspondents up in a tent." The cost of maintaining a Peking bureau can be high (upwards of $100,000 a year for print journalists...