The family or its foundations owned hotel resorts and casinos on the Caspian Sea and received vast proceeds from the gambling there.
They were parking in foundation-owned lots, nightcapping in a foundation-owned Wyndham hotel, noshing in delis in foundation-owned buildings and sporting kitschy shirts from the foundation-owned souvenir shop.
It will instead report to the president of the Bush foundation, a former hotel executive who Bush once made ambassador to Costa Rica.
ON my first morning in Sana, the capital of Yemen, the call to prayer didn't just rouse me from sleep, it rattled the window panes, seemed to shake the foundation of my hotel, and spread from minaret to minaret as if the entire Old City was an enormous echo chamber.
The free breakfast buffet, financed by foundations, in the hotel adjoining the conference center draws about 300 attendees daily, including many voting delegates.
Patrick Melia, chief executive of North Tyneside council, sits on a bench in front of the Spanish City dome, as diggers create the foundations for a hotel being built alongside it, and recalls going to Whitley Bay prom as a boy.
"You get there and there's just the foundation of the ruined hotel, and you're standing on this flat cement slab overlooking all of L.A. It's the biggest view I've seen".
It was one of hundreds of ships abandoned--rigging, furnishings and all--by its crew for the gold fields and sunk into the earth as foundation for a waterfront hotel.
"The 13th century structure that is the foundation of the new hotel is unlike any other, and we took meticulous care in preserving and infusing important historic elements into the transformation of the building," states Bruno H. de Schuyter, the Setai Tel Aviv's General Manager.
Joannou shrugged off the reaction: "The negative thing about all of that is that no one paid attention to the show". Guilty, like his foundation or the Semiramis hotel in Athens designed by Karim Rashid, is part of that same dynamic network of projects that Joannou hopes will draw more people to the world of art.
The Pavilion, constructed in 1935 and designed by the architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, suffered minor damage to its foundations when the Metropole hotel adjacent to the building's western side was destroyed by German bombers during the Second World War.
