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Under a plan approved by Marriott shareholders on Friday, the corporation will divide into Marriott International, a hotel operation; and Host Marriott, a real estate, airport and toll road concessions business that will carry most of the company's $2.9 billion debt...
...Operation Rescue try to stop the Gulf War, which came with a loss of life that most abortion clinics would find hard to top. Where are the "pro-lifers" in the Somalia fiasco? It's possible that they are filling sandbags in Bangladesh in hopes of lessening the human toll of the next great flood there, but I somehow doubt...
...exception: the death toll, 26 late last week, was only a hair above the 23 killed by the mammoth flood of 1973 in many of the same areas, and only a tenth of the 250 who perished in the 1937 flood -- to say nothing of the record 2,100 drowned on the single day of May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Main reasons: abundant warnings, evacuation plans well worked out in advance, the lack of flash floods and above all the fact that over the years most population centers have been protected by levees and dams built high and strong...
Under a plan announced last fall, Marriott will divide into Marriott International, a hotel operation: and Host Marriott, a real estate, airport and toll road concessions business that will carry most of the company's $2.9 billion in debt...
...taxi driver in a battered vehicle with a Bruegger's Bagel bag in the front hailed me and began driving me at breakneck speed to Somerville, cursing at the traffic in the tunnel and stopping reluctantly to pay the toll...