Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than ever before. Never has competition in the lodging industry been more fierce. As construction of new hotels has outstripped demand for rooms, average occupancy rates have dropped, from 70% in 1981 to a basement-level 65% last year. In | that tough climate, innkeepers are going all out to woo the customers who account for more than 70% of all hotel stays: business travelers. Many of the major hotel chains are giving corporate clients an office away from the office by providing all sorts of executive services, from stenography and photocopying to personal computers and the Dow Jones news wire...
...Dorman '88 Allison L. Jernow '89 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Shari Rudavsky '88 Features Editors Jim D. Solomon '87-'88 Allison L. Jernow '89 sports editors Joseph H. Kaufman '89 Sports Editors Joseph H. Kaufman '89 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Photo Editor Mihail S. Lari '89 Business Editor Tai Woo Hah '88 Copy Editor Melissa A. Langley...
BUSINESS:Robert Q. McManus '88 of Winthrop House and Hempsted, New York, Business Manager. Jane A. Stackpole '88 of Winthrop House and Elizabeth, New Jersey, Operations Manager Tai Woo Hah '88 of Winthrop House and Worceste Massachusetts, Advertising Manager. Willa F.H. Berghuis '88 Eliot House and Toronto, Canada, Advertising Manager. Alison Verani '88 of Quincy House and Ipswich Massachusetts, Special Publications Manager. Janice L. Williams '88 of Lowell House and St. Louis, Missouri, Circulation Manager. Eric M. Candell '88 of winthrop House and Jericho, New York, Systems Manager. John T. Schiavone '89 of Cabot House and Flushing, New York, Credit...
Evangelist Pat Robertson, who has been shadowing Kemp's efforts to woo conservatives, has lost ground among voters since news reports appeared last September alleging that he dodged combat duty in Korea. Robertson's favorable rating among Republicans and independents has dived 20 percentage points since last May, to 27%, and 56% of those familiar with Robertson now say they have a "generally unfavorable" impression of him. The combative White House communications director, Patrick Buchanan, who has been dropping hints about running for President, also has a high negative rating: 41% of Republicans and independents familiar with Buchanan have...
...gain such cooperation from Sakharov the physicist, Gorbachev will have to woo Sakharov the human rights activist. The courtship may already have begun. On Dec. 19, Crimean Tatar Activist Mustafa Dzhemilev was freed from a Siberian labor camp after twelve years of prison and exile. Last week Yuri Lyubimov, a prominent Soviet theatrical director who was stripped of his citizenship two years ago for criticizing cultural restrictions, received a phone call in Washington from a former colleague at Moscow's Taganka Theater encouraging him to return home. Lyubimov believes the call was officially sanctioned, and is pursuing the overture...