Standardization was also a way of reprogramming life elsewhere in the default settings of the metropole.
Vierdag's versatility encompasses Latin and Brazilian music, while Vink is the drummer of the well-known Metropole Orchestra.
Backed by the local Metropole, the 337-hectare site is now one of the largest urban projects in Europe.
After being constructed by two French investors in 1901, the Metropole had quickly become one of Asia's most celebrated hotels.
Formerly known as the Metropole, that hotel was ground zero for the first reported case of SARS in Hong Kong.
Falcons play Racing Metro 92 at the Stade Lille Metropole on Sunday.
Hong Kong's Kowloon Metropark (formerly the Metropole), the Hong Kong hotel that had the first reported SARS case in the city, declined an interview request.
The owner of a black Audi RS3 was threatened with a knife by two masked men outside the Hilton Metropole Hotel near the NEC, Birmingham, police said.
But during the war, well-heeled travelers sipping coffee and fine cognac on the Metropole terrace were replaced by scared Vietnamese ducking into bomb shelters sunk into the pavement as the U.S. Air Force flew overhead.
Most cases are thought to be spread by sneezing, but he said there other factors could be at work in Hong Kong, particularly the clusters of cases at the Hotel Metropole and an apartment complex.
As soon as the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded on April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico, the portfolio managers at Metropole Gestion sitting thousands of miles away dumped the shares of BP they owned in their various funds.
His Metropole Hotel, whose interior fittings still feature a Sassoon family emblem with its two greyhounds, rises at a nearby intersection -- across from its twin, Hamilton House, built by Sir Victor as a hybrid office building and high-rise apartment house.
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Getting Bangkok under my belt would have given me the opportunity to take a shore excursion to Ayutthaya, the ancient Thai capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, when we were in Bangkok, and the chance to knock Hanoi (and the Colonial-era Metropole Hotel) off my bucket list.
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