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What's Missing From Mitt Romney's Fundraising?

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney announced on May 17 that it had raised $40.1 million in April, when i...

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Bill Marriott Talks Leading The Hotel Giant For 40 Years

AP | By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ | Posted 03.14.2012

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BETHESDA, Md. -- Bill Marriott has revolutionized the hotel business over the past four decades. As CEO of the company that bears his family's name, ...

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LOOK: Was That 12-Foot Giraffe On Pennsylvania Avenue?

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- If you saw a 12-foot-tall giraffe standing outside the Newseum on Thursday, you weren't hallucinating. A giraffe named Dude held cou...

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Romney Saw Marriott Use Tax Shelters As Auditing Chairman

Bloomberg | Posted 02.22.2012

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Mitt Romney has long had close ties to hotel operator Marriott International Inc. (MAR) The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, whos...

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High-Tech Start-Up Focus: Flite's 'Agile Marketing Platform'

Bill_Robinson | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Charles Schwab, Marriott, Microsoft, Intel, Tostitos, Starcom, General Mills, Fedex, Adweek, Paramount Pictures, Toyota, Best Buy, Cnet, Cisco, Publicis, Yahoo, Sony, Coca-Cola, Hummer Winblad, Dell, General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Mediavest, Digitas, Aetna, Sybase, Loreal, Ibm, Google, Flite, Small Business America, Small Business News

One of the most crucial elements of any high-tech start-up's survival -- much less evolution -- is the money backing the enterprise. Is it 'smart money?' Is it 'patient money?' Is it 'connected money?'

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Working Poor Stiffed Millions In Wages: Lawsuit

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.09.2012

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More than a dozen low-level hotel workers in Indianapolis have filed a class-action lawsuit against ten of the city's hotels and a labor staffing agen...

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New Year's Guests Locked Out Of Denver Marriott

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

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By Associated Press DENVER -- New Year's guests at a Denver Marriott were locked out of their rooms when the clock struck midnight and their room k...

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Attention Food Nostalgists: Hot Shoppes To Reopen (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Washingtonian brought some excellent food news on Tuesday for nostalgia-lovers. A new Hot Shoppes restaurant will be opening in the 1,17...

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Senior Woman Checks Out Of Hotel After More Than A Decade

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.01.2012

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Mini-shampoo bottles may seem like a delightful novelty for a few days away from home, but one woman opted to get access to tiny toiletries and room s...

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Will The Madison Avenue Clock Tower Turn Into A Marriot?

Posted 12.26.2011

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By Craig Carmin, Wall Street Journal Marriott International Inc. has agreed to buy Manhattan's famous Clock Tower building, raising the prospect th...

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Hotel Worker Tells Story Behind Viral Resignation Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.19.2011

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Like almost anyone who's ever held down a job, Joey DeFrancesco harbored dreams of one day quitting work in spectacular fashion. The way 23-year-o...

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The Brooklyn Nets -- How Sweet the Sound

Robert E. Murphy | Posted 12.03.2011

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The Brooklyn Nets. Only people around here who are my age or older can quite appreciate the significance of those words.

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10 Years Later, Tourists Check-In To Lower Manhattan

Melanie Nayer | Posted 11.08.2011

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The suits that adorn the patrons of cafes, restaurants and sidewalks on Wall Street and in Battery Park City now mingle with tourists donning "I LOVE NY" t-shirts.

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As Big Hotels Outsource Jobs, Workers Lose Hold On Living Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.24.2011

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Maria Fajardo has been working as a housekeeper and janitor in Indianapolis hotels since 1987. The job has changed a lot in 24 years, ...

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Hotels Supersize Rooms To Lure Tall Athletes

Posted 09.25.2011

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Some hotels have begun designing rooms especially catered to larger sized athletes in attempt to lure customers from this niche market. Hotels suc...

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PHOTOS: London's St. Pancras Hotel Reopens After 138 Years

Melanie Nayer | Posted 07.06.2011

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The new majestic hotel was a divine addition to the classic architecture that lined the city streets. The St. Pancras station and hotel introduced London to a new way of travel and living. Not only was it the first time trains connected in the north side of London, but the hotel was the first to introduce the Ladies' Smoking Room -- the first public room in Europe where women were allowed to smoke, acknowledging the status (and often, wealth) of women.

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Hey Marketers! I Want My Data Back!

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 06.07.2011

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If you're like me, you're splurting data all over the place. Just a few years a back, the idea of sharing your credit card on the Internet seemed like...

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PHOTOS: 10 Hotels With Exclusive Boutiques

Melanie Nayer | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's no limit to the amount of money you can drop during a hotel stay. From fine dining to spa treatments to room service, the costs add up quickly...

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Marriott Bans Porn In Hotels

Posted 05.25.2011

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Marriott Hotels is taking a stand against porn. The hotel chain is aiming to ban all porn entertainment in their new properties that will be opening i...

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Where Have You Been?

Jenny Block | Posted 05.25.2011

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Where have I traveled and where have I been in the last five years or so? What I discovered from my list is that the more aware I was forced to be, the more enjoyable the experience.

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Algonquin Hotel To Become A Marriott

New York Daily News | By Jane H. Furse | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Algonquin, the hotel where literary figures of the 1920s held court at the Round Table, is becoming a Marriott. The storied landmark at 59 W. ...

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Travel and Social Privilege

Chris Guillebeau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marriott, Seattle, Travel, Gratitude, Luxury Travel, Toulouse, Third World Travel, Travel News

It's a luxury to be able to visit new lands. This doesn't mean that travel is bad, or that we have to apologize for it because it is not universally available.

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New Orleans Hotels Celebrate Revivals, Reopenings, Five Years After Hurricane Katrina

Melanie Nayer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Marriott, Hurricane Katrina, Hyatt Hotels, Ritz Carlton, New Orleans-Louisiana, Slidepollajax, Travel News

The Hyatt was the most severely damaged hotel in the city, but last week celebrated the ground-breaking ceremony that announced the hotel's plans to reopen for business in late 2011.

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Illinois Hotel Backs Out Of Hosting Muslim Group

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — A controversial Muslim group has canceled its annual U.S. conference after a suburban Chicago hotel backed out of hosting the event. ...

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Marriott Hotel Withdraws Claim In Stamford Rape Case

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Marriott hotel abandoned a defense Monday in a lawsuit brought by a Connecticut woman raped at gunpoint in front of her yo...

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