Her calls for help brought a pool attendant who resuscitated the child, who recovered fully.

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At one unionised hotel, he recalls, the pool attendant was not allowed to take the deck chairs out of the pool when the wind blew them in.

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"It was insane, " said Adel Al-Shabooti, an admissions attendant at Upton Hill pool in Arlington, Va.

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