<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Marriott International Inc.: News &amp; Videos about Marriott International Inc. - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Marriott_International_Inc</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Marriott International Inc. from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:15:28 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Marriott International Inc.: News &amp; Videos about Marriott International Inc. - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/indonesia.terror/tztop.top.afp.gi.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Marriott_International_Inc</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Marriott International Inc. from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Police: DNA confirms Noordin dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/indonesia.terror/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/19/indonesia.terror/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Indonesian police say they have DNA evidence identifying the man they killed this week as Noordin Top, the nation's most-wanted terror suspect.</description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Experts: Many young Muslim terrorists spurred by humiliation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/13/generation.islam.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/13/generation.islam.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At first, no one seemed to notice the young man who walked into the hotel lobby at around 7:45 that Friday morning.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysian fugitive suspected in hotel bombs</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/18/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/18/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Authorities investigating the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta have found the remains of another person and think a notorious Malaysian-born militant fugitive may be behind the assault, police said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police release sketches of suspected Jakarta bombers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/22/indonesia.blasts.sketches/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/22/indonesia.blasts.sketches/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Authorities in Indonesia released sketches Wednesday of two men believed to have carried out last week's bombings at two luxury hotels in Jakarta.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. firm denies staff were fired on in Indonesia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/22/indonesia.convoy.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/22/indonesia.convoy.attack/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A U.S. mining company has denied a report by Indonesia's state media that a convoy of its buses came under fire in the province of Papua Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police say Jakarta hotel bombers were guests</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Indonesian authorities believe two suicide bombers checked into the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta and carried out coordinated bombings Friday morning, killing themselves and at least six victims and wounding more than 50 others.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Indonesian hotel attacks spark widespread condemnation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions.reaction/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions.reaction/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. President Barack Obama and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband both said they "strongly condemn" Friday's deadly hotel attacks in Jakarta, Indonesia.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Inside Marriott's test kitchen</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/24/news/companies/marriott_test_kitchen.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/24/news/companies/marriott_test_kitchen.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>When it comes to food, everyone's a critic -- even a gentleman like J.W. "Bill" Marriott, the longtime chairman and CEO of Marriott International, the $12.9-billion-a-year hotel giant.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott gets a wake-up call</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/22/news/companies/marriott_hotels_makeover.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2009/06/22/news/companies/marriott_hotels_makeover.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Next time you order breakfast at a Marriott, you may notice something new about the bacon. Instead of being served in identical six-inch strips, it now comes in an assortment of sizes. That's because senior executives of Marriott, after sampling four or five varieties of bacon in a blind taste test, found that an irregular cut, which costs less, tastes just as good as the rectangular slices traditionally served in the company's hotels.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Changing travel one tweet at a time</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/02/10/microblogging.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/02/10/microblogging.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>"There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people."</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:56:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Blaze erupts at Marriott Hotel in Pakistan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/26/pakistan.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/26/pakistan.unrest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A fire broke out at a major international hotel in Pakistan's capital Islamabad Thursday, five months after it was hit by a deadly suicide bombing.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fuel depot blaze put out in Jakarta</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/19/indonesia.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/19/indonesia.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Firefighters extinguished a massive blaze at a fuel depot in the Indonesian capital Monday morning after a day-long fire burned hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fuel depot on fire in Indonesian capital</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/indonesia.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/18/indonesia.fire/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A tank in the Indonesian capital's sole fuel depot has caught fire, belching billowing black clouds of smoke into the air as millions of gallons of fuel blazed.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Minister taken hostage in Irish holdup</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/15/ireland.minister.hostage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/12/15/ireland.minister.hostage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Republic of Ireland's Minister for European Affairs was briefly held hostage during a robbery at a Marriott hotel south of Dublin, Irish police said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>6 reasons we love to travel now</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/12/04/reasons.to.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/12/04/reasons.to.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>It took a couple of airline bankruptcies, a summer of staycations, a serious recession and the near-collapse of the world economy, but by golly, travelers are feeling loved right now.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Four held over Marriott hotel blast in Islamabad</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/pakistan.marriott.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/pakistan.marriott.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Pakistani authorities have arrested four men in connection with the suicide truck bombing of a Marriott Hotel last month in Islamabad that killed more than 50 people, officials said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott Books Lower 3Q Profit, Expects Tough 2009</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1846573,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1846573,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Hotel company Marriott International Inc. said Thursday that its third-quarter profit dropped 28 percent, and warned investors about deteriorating conditions for 2009 amid the ongoing financial crisis</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BA suspends Pakistan flights indefinitely</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/23/pakistan.marriott.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/23/pakistan.marriott.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>British Airways is suspending flights to and from Pakistan indefinitely following the deadly bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel, the airline says.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why the Car Bomb Is a Terrorist's Best Weapon</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843328,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843328,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The 'poor man's air force' is accessible, devastating and extremely hard to defend against</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blast Leaves Pakistan Shaken</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843169,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843169,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Zardari promises to take the fight to the extremists before departing for the U.N. in New York
</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly blast targets Marriott Hotel in Islamabad</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/20/pakistan.islamabad.marriott.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/20/pakistan.islamabad.marriott.blast/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A suicide truck bombing destroyed the packed Marriott Hotel in the city of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday night.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott Terror: A Challenge to Pakistan's Leaders
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843126,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843126,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Wary of allowing U.S. operations on his soil, President Zardari seeks a national consensus on fighting terrorism
</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>40 Dead in Pakistan Hotel Bombing</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843106,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1843106,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Saturday, killing at least 11</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Best new budget hotels</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/05/29/budget.hotels/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/05/29/budget.hotels/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lower-priced hotels have long been the realm of Muzak-filled lobbies outfitted with worse-for-wear furniture and industrial carpeting. But the genre has entered a new era. A wine bar? A sleek lounge area? Free Wi-Fi? </description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks poised to tick higher</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/14/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/14/markets/stockswatch/index.htm</guid><description>U.S. stock futures pointed toward a flat open Thursday as investors waited to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would say during their testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>7 ways to make your office greener</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/04/news/economy/environment.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/04/news/economy/environment.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Consider, if you will, the humble coffee mug - that's right, the one with the wacky slogan on it that you might be drinking from right now. By bringing a mug to work and using it, instead of chugging your caffeine fix from disposable cups, you can help reduce the 2 million tons of paper and plastic cups and plates tossed out in the U.S. each year.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hotels accommodating fire evacuees with reduced rates</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/23/evac.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/10/23/evac.travel/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds of thousands of displaced San Diego County residents are navigating around road closures to find refuge in shelters and hotel rooms a safe distance from the wildfires encroaching on their neighborhoods. </description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Travel's inconvenient conveniences</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/traveltips/09/03/inconvenient.conveniences/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/traveltips/09/03/inconvenient.conveniences/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The travel industry is sinking billions of dollars into technology like online booking tools, check-in kiosks and phone systems that recognize your voice, promising it will make you next trip easier than ever.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Buyout pop for stocks may be fading</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/05/markets/pe_stock_driver/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/05/markets/pe_stock_driver/index.htm</guid><description>Buyout firms haven't been the only ones benefiting from the rash of deals taking a host of big companies private - investors have also been cashing in on the takeover party.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott family values</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/24/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_marriott.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/24/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_marriott.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>In 1927, J. Willard Marriott and new bride, Alice, opened a nine-stool root beer stand in Washington, D.C. It grew into a restaurant chain called Hot Shoppes and much later became a hotel company. Their son Bill Marriott worked in the kitchen as a young man.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 01:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fitness options at a few major hotels</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/16/hm.hotel.tips/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/16/hm.hotel.tips/index.html</guid><description>Here are the fitness offerings from a sampling of major hotel chains:</description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suicide bomber rocks Islamabad airport </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/06/pakistan.airport.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/06/pakistan.airport.blast/index.html</guid><description>A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad's airport Tuesday after he was stopped by security as he tried to enter the airport, police sources told CNN.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Pakistan suicide attack kills two</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/pakistan.bomb/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/pakistan.bomb/index.html</guid><description>A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself in an attack outside the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Monday's movers</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/27/markets/late_movers_1127/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/27/markets/late_movers_1127/index.htm</guid><description>DaimlerChrysler The automaker's turnaround plan is likely to include job cuts and the closing of two of 13 North American assembly plants, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Forget mints on the pillow, try a pet goldfish</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/08/smbusiness/hotels/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/08/smbusiness/hotels/index.htm</guid><description>When you're staying at a hotel, would you like a pet goldfish to keep you company? Or perhaps warm cookies at bedtime to help lull you to sleep?</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hotels get wired</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/11/01/quest.hotelroom/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/11/01/quest.hotelroom/index.html</guid><description>Marriott Hotels has become the latest hotel group to include more technology in their hotel rooms to accommodate the multi-media savvy traveler.</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Marriott International ranks No. 203 on the 2006 FORTUNE 500</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/21/news/companies/marriott_f500_fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/04/21/news/companies/marriott_f500_fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Marriott International ranks no. 203 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $11,550 million in revenues, up 14.4% from the previous year. The Bethesda, Md.-based company was ranked no. 224 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $669 million, up 12.2% from a year earlier.</description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Holloway case detainee to be held 8 days</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/17/holloway/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/17/holloway/index.html</guid><description>A man arrested in connection with  Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance has been ordered to remain in custody for another eight days, authorities on the Caribbean island of Aruba announced Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stocks try to build on rally</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/09/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/09/markets/markets_nyopen/index.htm</guid><description>Stocks gained modestly Thursday morning as upbeat earnings from Aetna, Marriott and others enabled investors to extend the previous session's advance.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Warsaw City Guide</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/02/03/warsaw.guide/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/02/03/warsaw.guide/index.html</guid><description>Check out The Scene' suggestions for the Polish capital and send us your own ideas and suggestions below.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Is it time to cash out?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/15/real_estate/4questions_cashout_fortune_122605/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/15/real_estate/4questions_cashout_fortune_122605/index.htm</guid><description>Jim and Diane Smith are homeowners on the edge. For the past several months they have been taking mental notes on every new housing statistic in the papers: existing-home sales, housing starts, inventories and so on.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN takes in-depth look at bird flu</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/11/02/birdflu.tv/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/11/02/birdflu.tv/index.html</guid><description>Amid a growing number of cases of bird flu around the world, there is increasing global concern that the virus may mutate to a human-to-human strain and eventually lead to a pandemic.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 08:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Post-disaster, now comes the job search</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/15/pf/katrina_jobs/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/15/pf/katrina_jobs/index.htm</guid><description>Hurricane Katrina will cost the nation 400,000 jobs by the end of the year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. 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Like that long-forgotten text, it's filled with foreign words and strange co...</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rare burger? Just don't sue us</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/29/burger.lawyer/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/29/burger.lawyer/index.html</guid><description>An exclusive London restaurant stopped asking customers to sign a legal disclaimer if they order rare or medium-rare burgers after the practice came to the attention of the city's legal community.</description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Video captures Jakarta blast</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/indonesia.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/indonesia.blast/index.html</guid><description>Indonesian police have released a security-camera video that captures the moment a suicide bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Police probe Jakarta suicide role</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/indonesia.blast0900/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/indonesia.blast0900/index.html</guid><description>At least one suicide bomber was responsible for carrying out Thursday's attack near the Australian Embassy in central Jakarta that killed nine people and injured more than 180 others, police officials said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Text 'warned of Jakarta bomb'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/indonesia.blast/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/10/indonesia.blast/index.html</guid><description>Indonesian police received a text message warning of an attack on a Western embassy less than an hour before a suicide car bomber detonated in front of the Australian Embassy on Thursday, according to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hotels Have Room To Rise Lodging</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/09/377898/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/08/09/377898/index.htm</guid><description>If you've noticed a little more hustle and bustle at your fave vacation hot spot this summer, you're not imagining things. 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And then ...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Safe Harbors A growth maven weathers the storm.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/06/01/325107/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2002/06/01/325107/index.htm</guid><description>For most growth investors, weathering this bear market has been a new and unfamiliar experience. Not so for Spiros "Sig" Segalas. The 68-year-old Segalas launched Jennison Associates back in 1969, ...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>No Money, Mo' Problems</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/02/04/317498/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/02/04/317498/index.htm</guid><description>Corporate cost cutting is never palatable, but it's often understandable. 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But our favorite, th...</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jul 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where Companies Rank In Their Industries Here's how             executives, directors, and securities analysts rate 504         </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/02/21/273874/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/02/21/273874/index.htm</guid><description>FINANCIAL INDUSTRY Merging with Travelers doesn't hurt Citicorp, which as Citigroup is No. 1 in money center banks. 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In February, Chase became the first major bank to offer debit rew...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>IS THIS THE END OF THE NO-INFLATION JOB BOOM?</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/05/12/226252/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/05/12/226252/index.htm</guid><description>On the sixth birthday of what was long considered a feeble and jobless economic expansion, the U.S. job market is finally in an unmistakable boom. Employers have put record numbers of Americans to ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FINDING TRAINING &amp;amp; KEEPING THE BEST SERVICE WORKERS The frontline workers who actually face your customers every day can mak</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/10/03/79797/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/10/03/79797/index.htm</guid><description>Pull up to the Marriott Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois, and you'll find the red-blazered Tony Prsyszlak ready to help you with your luggage. 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One result: More business people are checking into ''limited-ser...</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FINDING PROFITS IN A FALLING MARKET</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74225/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/22/74225/index.htm</guid><description>These are good times for shortsellers, the bad boys of Wall Street who make money when stocks go down. Through August, Ursus Partners of New York City has earned a return of 40%, vs. a negative 6.7...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FORTUNE Magazine contents page JUNE 4, 1990 VOL. 121, NO. 13 </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/06/04/73657/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/06/04/73657/index.htm</guid><description>THE SERVICE 500/Cover Story 58 WHAT CUSTOMERS REALLY WANT It's service, service, service. How do you give it to them when labor is in short supply? The work force challenge will be the key issue fo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BIG DEALS SOMETIMES COME IN THREES</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72396/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72396/index.htm</guid><description>Frederic Malek, 52, the former Marriott Hotels president, has set up shop as a merchant banker -- and how. In April he brought together a disparate group of investors, which includes Sumitomo Bank,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NORTHWEST IS LANDED</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/17/72262/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/07/17/72262/index.htm</guid><description>A crew that knows a lot about providing in-flight meals and renting hotel rooms now will try its hand at running an airline. After a three-month bidding war, NWA, parent of Northwest Airlines, acce...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ON THE RISE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71874/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71874/index.htm</guid><description>BARRY A. MAYO, 36 BROADCASTING PARTNERS INC. In 13 years of programming radio broadcasts at five stations around the country, Mayo became known as a turnaround artist. Last September he struck out ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HIRING THE HANDICAPPED</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71075/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71075/index.htm</guid><description>As a good-will gesture, Irv Klein and Jonah Kaufman hired several mentally handicapped adults to work in their 13 McDonald's restaurants on Long Island, New York, last year. The experience was so s...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MARKETERS MINE FOR GOLD IN THE OLD Households Madison Avenue calls ''mature'' are wealthier, more numerous, and more willing to </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/31/67326/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/03/31/67326/index.htm</guid><description>THE ACTRESS on the video screen looks 60-ish, well nourished, and confident. She is portraying a consumer, and she talks like no traditional grandma. 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