"In the late 1980s, Hilton was among the first luxury hotel brands to utilize the service, " says Mike Bare, co-owner and president of Bare International and one of the original founders of the MSPA. Three decades later, it's common practice among hotel brands around the world. (Proof: LRA recently opened a satellite office in busy Singapore.) And soon enough, its taciturn nature may be over.

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International astronomers suspect it is a bare, icy, rocky world, much colder than the Earth and 13 times its mass.

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The bare facts of that case are public because it was filed at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, which works with a modicum of transparency.

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