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...Organised by the Office of Racial Equity, the city’s Arts Impact Endowment and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), the programme provides a no-strings-attached $1,000 monthly stipend for 130 selected...
...Despite saying that he was “pretty committed” not to move to Hyatt, which started life as a single motel on the side of Los Angeles International Airport, he was persuaded after stepping in for a stint as...
...Highway patrols have warned of traffic jams on back roads, motels in obscure hamlets are booked solid and online vendors have exhausted supplies of safety eyewear....
...Fresnillo already owns 56 per cent of the venture, which includes its Herradura, Noche Buena and Soledad Dipolos mines in Sonora province as well as two advanced exploration projects, Mega Centauro and Centauro...
...It is twice as large as the Yerba Buena Center where it launched the iPhone 5 last month....
...Blackstone, a US private equity group, which specialises in real estate and already owns Hilton Hotels Corp, La Quinta Inns & Suites, and Wyndham hotels, said Motel 6 would be operated on a standalone basis...
...On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King was killed in a motel by a single bullet from a rifle. Two months later, Robert Kennedy was shot dead....
...By contrast Accor, Europe’s largest hotel operator, seems to be in permanent restructuring mode, selling its US Motel 6 chain to Blackstone for $1.9bn....
...“It may sound funny, but if you live in a good neighbourhood, you drive home and there’s a bank, there’s a grocery store and big houses – but there’s no motels....
...When Steve Jobs walked on to the stage at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center in January, it capped the most remarkable comeback in modern business history....
...But BP’s escrow billions should not go merely to paying lost wage claims to the charter boat operators, fisherman, motel owners, and seaside restaurateurs whose livelihoods have suffered....
...Roach motel in Japanese is “gokiburi hoi hoi.”...
...Related links: Welcome to the roach motel – FT Alphaville Escaping quantitative easing – FT Alphaville The pictorial quantititative easing – FT Alphaville Repos turning Japanese – FT Alphaville How low rates...
...Repo fails, incidentally, are also at risk of increasing in an low-rate environment, but that may be the subject of another, later, post… Related link: Welcome to the roach motel – FT Alphaville ______...
...“In the US you think of them as motels in the mid west, but the European operation is run with a very different philosophy....
...Once, a local motel guessed the feds were coming and put up a welcome banner on the marquee. Another time, FDIC officials hired a hypnotist to get a confused bank employee to remember the vault code....
...This prompts Homer, who is listening, to woo her with flowers, dinner and a night in a motel, leaving the kids with a criminal babysitter whose profile is broadcast on TV and who is thus captured and tied...
...The varied line-up also includes the Cuban beats of former Buena Vista frontman Roberto Fonseca, DJ Mr Scruff and a theatrical BBC Radio 2 tribute to Billie Holiday....
...Buena Vista said: “We believe Starz misreads the agreement with Buena Vista Television and that its claim is without merit....
...Another cash deal involved Equity Inns , the hotel and motel real estate investment trust....
...Equity Inns jumped 15.4 per cent to $22.71 this week after the hotel and motel real estate investment trust was bought for about $1.26bn by a private real estate trust....
...Buena Vista’s Mr Cremers agrees: “I consider it the Trojan horse that will bring Blu-ray into millions of homes in a matter of months.”...
...In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said the ruling could be used to replace “any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory”....
...Plus, thanks to Mr Murdoch, we have resources of News Corp world wide that we can tap into. Our depth is very strong....
...They are encouraged to remain sympathetic by the economic benefits this depressed area derives from supplying motel rooms and pizzas to visiting attorneys....
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