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Hawaii’s Optics Problem: A Travel Hotspot Struggles With Meetings Business

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Instead, the group chose a more-landlocked venue: West Virginia. It is patently unfair,” he told Stateline , a news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts. And Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr threatened to fire city employees who attended (one attendee from the Motor City, Cedric Cook, lost his job last month ).

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

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While it is a geographically diverse list (throughout US and Canada [8] and one from England), a higher proportion come from the area where I live and work: Northern Virginia/Washington, DC. Other states with strong representation include California (16), New York (6), Pennsylvania (5), Florida (4), and Texas (4). Host.Teacher.