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...have prompted the Mukhrovani soldiers' rebellion, at a base where soldiers had previously mutinied over pay and conditions in 2001 and 2004. "One cannot calmly watch the collapse of the country and watch the continuing political confrontation. But there won't be any aggressive action from our tank unit. We are in our barracks, and we are not going to leave them," said Mamuka Gorgishvili, the battalion commander at Mukhrovani, on Tuesday...
...something’s got to give, and someone’s got to choose.”Anne Harrington, chair of the history of science department, said she finds it unlikely that restructuring will occur at the departmental level because “the unit-analysis is wrong.”“We all hang together,” Harrington said. “If we each reshape ourselves, we’re going to end up a bunch of different-shaped puzzle pieces.”With the administration in discussions about a retirement incentive program...
...decline has been," says Scott Berman, U.S. leader of hospitality and leisure consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Even time-shares at top lodging companies are taking hits: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide reported a 48% decline in revenues from its vacation-ownership business in the fourth quarter, with the average price per unit plunging 31%. Similarly, Marriott International posted a 32% revenue drop in time-share sales. David Loeb, a senior analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., sees more pain ahead. He projects Starwood's vacation-ownership sales revenues to fall an additional 27% and Marriott's an additional...
...temptingly inexpensive, experts warn they should be vacation plays, not investment plays. "Don't buy it to flip it," cautions Howard Nusbaum, president of the American Resort Development Association. Buyers need to be cautious and carefully read all the fine print in the contracts, especially when purchasing a resale unit. State laws regulate sales of new time-shares but not resales...
That doesn't mean the value won't grow. Berman notes that a time-share unit he purchased in Colorado in 1997 for less than $40,000 is now worth more than $125,000 in the resale market. He emphasizes that an appreciation of three times the purchase price is the exception, not the norm. Still, it must make his ski vacations even more enjoyable...