Word: taj
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...their track record in running a luxury auto brand is untested. At the same time, however, America's Ford has not exactly made a great success of Jaguar over the past few years: that's one reason the company is selling it. And when it comes to hotels, the Taj chain owns, among its wide range of properties, some of the most luxurious hotels in the world. It is also expanding: in the past few years it has snapped up properties in Boston, Manhattan and San Francisco. "It would be very easy for us to make an open offer...
...days later Indian Hotels, which owns the luxury Taj hotel chain and is itself a branch of the Tata empire, was told its overtures to New York Stock Exchange-listed luxury hotel and cruise firm Orient-Express were unwelcome - and potentially damaging. Indian Hotels recently upped its stake in Orient-Express to 11.5%. But Orient-Express CEO Paul White, in a letter to Indian Hotels Vice-Chairman R. K. Krishna Kumar, wrote that "any association of our luxury brands and properties with your brands and properties would result in a reduction of our brands and of our business and would...
...they will probably see it as a turning point in the currency's fortunes. For decades, the rupee has steadily depreciated. Now it seems to have turned a corner. One inkling of the significance of the change can be seen in the entrance fees to monuments such as the Taj Mahal, which have traditionally offered a rupee rate to locals and a higher, dollar rate for foreigners. Last month the government stopped accepting dollars at national monuments, because their value in rupee terms had dropped so much. Foreign tourists will now have to pay the same way as Indians...
...these swashbuckling accounts of derring-do that he commissioned 1,400 exquisite canvas folios depicting scenes from them (five of the paintings accompany this article). According to C.M. Naim, professor of Urdu studies at the University of Chicago, the illustrated Hamzanama (as the collected works are known) is "the Taj Mahal of medieval painting...
...first half: Forgot to mention: An early basket by Stanford big man Taj Finger elicited cries of "You got Fingered!" from the student section...