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Scaled-down convention-center projects do little for tourism corridor
It was an outrageous claim: Osceola County was going to get a convention-center complex so big you could see it from the moon. Fifteen years and many fizzled efforts later, the best the county could muster is 46,000 square feet of meeting and event...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Event Planning, Entertainment, Interstate 4, Services and Shopping
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Hillary Clinton to appear in Beverly Hills for award and speech
In the sort of appearance destined to fan speculation about her presidential aspirations in 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak in Beverly Hills next week at a gala hosted by the Pacific Council on International Policy. The nonpartisan group,...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, George W. Bush, Primaries, Hillary Clinton, European Union
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Md. governor to sign death penalty repeal measure ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Martin O'Malley is scheduled to sign a measure repealing capital punishment in Maryland. O'Malley, a Democrat, is set to sign the measure at a bill-signing ceremony on...Tags: Sex Crimes, Demographics, Social Issues, FBI, Natural Resource Industry
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Appeals court in Va. reinstates wrongful death suit against Marriott stemming from '08 bombing
Associated PressRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit accusing Marriott International of failing to adequately protect guests from a 2008 terrorist attack that killed more than 50 people at a Pakistan hotel. The family of victim...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Pakistan
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The day ahead in business May 1
Reports: MBA mortgage index for week ended April 27, 6 a.m.; ADP employment change for April, 7:15 a.m.; PMI manufacturing index for April, 7:58 a.m.; ISM manufacturing index for April, 9 a.m.; Construction spending for March, 9 a.m.; Crude inventories...
Tags: Exelon Corp., Viacom Inc., Archer Daniels Midland Incorporated, Prudential Financial Incorporated, Schawk Incorporated
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Marriott plans 35 layoffs in June, several hundred later
Bethesda-based Marriott International warned the state that it will lay off 35 employees in June, and potentially several hundred others later in the year, the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation said Friday. The company's layoff...Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Layoffs and Downsizing, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Job Layoffs
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Beat the zealots on immigration reform, then gun control
On Tuesday, I wrote about two senators’ bipartisan plan to expand background checks on gun buyers, saying it was a common-sense measure and should pass. On Wednesday, its sponsors -- Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, an NRA member,...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Parties and Movements, Rupert Murdoch, Labor Legislation, Immigration
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Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill
WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...
Tags: Michael F. Bennet, Dick Durbin, Parties and Movements, Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Flake
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Hotel design team rooted in Maryland
The jeans are too gray, Toby Schermerhorn is on the phone saying. They need to be bluer, she tells the person handling the jeans. Prints of this collage — dozens of overlapping blue jean-clad bottoms — are going to grace guest room bathrooms...
Tags: Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Hotels and Accommodations, Syracuse University, Frederick County (Maryland), Colleges and Universities
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How loyal are you to your hotel?
If you are a member of a hotel loyalty program, you are probably not really very loyal to your hotel at all. That is one finding of a survey of about 4,000 travelers by Deloitte & Touche about how they book hotels and what guides their decisions. Only...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Rentals, Car Guides and Reviews, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
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Romney can retire later
WASHINGTON -- The nation is heading toward the "fiscal cliff," but have no fear: Mitt Romney is coming to the rescue -- of Marriott International Inc. In his first public comments since election night, the defeated Republican presidential nominee issued...
Tags: Mitt Romney, NASCAR, Parties and Movements, Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove
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Suit blames hotel for death from Legionnaires' disease
Tribune reporterA wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Thursday against Marriott International, claiming that a downtown Chicago hotel is responsible for infecting an Irish tourist with Legionnaires’ disease. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, says...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Legionellosis, Death, Chicago Hotels
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