Now, with Beijing poised for tomorrow's beginning of the Summer Olympics, a full-fledged hospitality campaign is under way.

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Remember, all these packages also include the entire Kentucky Oaks Day, so in every case you get two full days of racing and hospitality, and with the better packages food and drink, for this price, in the same seats and same lounges, so come Derby Day, you know exactly where everything is.

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Hospitality staff will be sent on early holiday with full pay or transferred to other ships, depending on the length remaining in their contracts, senior vice-president Terry Thornton said.

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New York police officer David Brink donated a suitcase full of things to the museum, including a pair of gloves he picked up in a hospitality tent set up at ground zero.

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