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...subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook for $650 million before Bollenbach sprang him, an act that some of the Donald's rivals found unforgivable...
This comfort sprang from knowing that the people who lived in Holworthy 23 might not be able to write my Expos paper or take my Ec 10 hourly, but they would smile and laugh and somehow make the mountains of tasks more bearable...
...behemoth, or so it seemed. Never as murderously tricky to climb as K-2, the world's second-highest peak, its challenge lay in the brute facts of its extreme altitude, occasional storms and inaccessibility. As clothing and equipment manufacturers mitigated the first problem, and a sprawling base camp sprang up at 5,340 meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them. It was not exactly a risk-free...
Shapiro will never speak to Bailey again, and he has said he will never work with Cochran again. He blames Cochran and Carl Douglas for violating the rules of reciprocal discovery in the defense's opening statement, when Cochran sprang new witnesses upon the prosecution. And he shows a Cochran determined to play the race card. "A defense built on race will never help us," Shapiro told Cochran. "Never say never, Bob," Cochran replied...
Founded by a group of Harvard and Brown graduates in 1989, the agency sprang from a six-company minority career fair which the Harvard Asian-American Association and minority Student Alliance organized at the Sheraton Commander Hotel...