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...comes as the debilitating recession, rising unemployment, a sharp pullback in business travel and weak consumer confidence have taken a crippling toll on hotels. In the first seven months of 2009, hotel occupancy was down 10.3% while average daily room rates are off 8.8%, according to Smith Travel Research (STR). At the same time, lodging stocks lost 80% of their value on average over the past year, although many have rallied back a bit in the past couple of months...
Revenue per available room, or revpar, which is a key metric used to measure room revenue growth, plunged 18.2% between January and August - the sharpest decline recorded for this period since STR began tracking the industry in 1987, says Bobby Bowers, senior vice president of STR's operations...
...almost completely negative. As my family lived in Japan for two years, I can say that the Japanese political system has many democratic features, such as its very Occidental constitution. Of course, I can also see the grievances, but which democratic country does not have problems? Nina Theresa Strüven, GRAFRATH, GERMANY...
...year's holiday advertising. Hasbro has reduced the number of contractors it uses, to keep tighter control of the production process, and it too has increased the number of spot checks. That's good news for the checkers. "Our phones are ringing off the hook," says DeRagon of the STR testing lab, which tracks toys from initial design to batch testing of wet paint to audits of contractors' factories...
...less resistant. The Forensic Science Service of England and Wales has carried out 292 DNA dragnets since it began counting in 1995. So far, 61--about 20% of all sweeps--have produced significant matches, helping push an investigation toward a suspect and, on numerous occasions, a conviction. In 1998 Str??cklingen, Germany, undertook the largest collection to date. More than 16,000 men in a rural town were sampled after a girl, 11, was raped and strangled. In a quest to restore the town's innocence, entire soccer teams took the test together. The killer, pressured to participate by friends...