Starting in 1993 they began selling off non-core holdings, including a food processing business, an investment bank and a hotel.
If you are going international, grab cash from the ATM at the airport so you don't have to search out a bank near your hotel.
Once completed, Nobu Hotel will have 180 rooms, 16 suites, a private elevator bank leading up to the hotel tower, a separate check-in area and its own service staff.
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He received a phone call from his friend who heard about both the hotel and bank job a from another friend .
Former colonial outposts across Asia harbor Art Deco gems -- from the former Banque d'Indochine building in Hanoi, which now belongs to the State Bank of Vietnam, to the Hotel Savoy Homann in Bandung, Indonesia.
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And, though the hotel was once a bank, and contains a vault so big that it's now used as a meeting room, the building retains reminders of a meaner existence: the cells used by the Customs House for prisoners are still in the basement.
Stylish beyond its three stars, the Rembrandt Hotel faces the landmark National Bank in the historic centre.
Together they drove the van to Manhattan and parked it next to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and walked to a nearby hotel.
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During my Labor Day Weekend visit to College Town USA, I stayed at the tony, centrally located, and pink-themed Langham Hotel, a former Federal Reserve Bank converted into a Renaissance Revival masterpiece that my late GOP mother would have adored.
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That said, monitoring hotel occupancy is not an activity that bank regulators routinely undertake.
London's iconic Grosvenor House hotel has been bought from the Royal Bank of Scotland by an Indian business group.
One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
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Outsourcing services, whether a bank outsources its credit-card business or a hotel its reservations, is harder to manage than outsourcing the manufacture of chips or tyres.
The filmmaker famous for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive has lent his name to a signautre suite at the Hotel Lutetia, an Art Deco Left Bank establishment that has given haven to the likes of Josephine Baker, the sculptor Arman and Charles de Gaulle on his wedding night.
But after a frustrating year, most of that money has gone home: no major deals have emerged (although Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, is in a bidding war for the Regent Hotel in Bangkok).
The television industry succeeded in shutting down technological end-runs on this basis in the past including a service that allowed multiple hotel guests to watch programs delivered from a single bank of VHS players and video stores that provided viewing booths.
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Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
In Hebron, also in the West Bank, an entrepreneur has opened the city's first luxury hotel.
Luxury hotels and clubhouses, such as the lavish Cathay Hotel and the opulent Shanghai Club, lined the western bank of the Huangpu River.
In July, 2005, a month after arriving at the bank, Wolfowitz attended the annual G8 summit, which took place at the Gleneagles Hotel, the Scottish golf resort.
At the Royal Hotel in Cromarty, Jenny Henderson performed a near miracle by persuading the Clydesdale Bank to back her purchase of the business three years ago.
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