The firm said the leading factors weighing on occupancy rates were a decline in travel caused by the recession, the increasing inconvenience of air travel, the increased possibility of airline delays and fears over the safety of traveling.
Most people would agree that choosing to write fiction is a bad career move, even with the increased possibility of a middle-class teaching life thanks to the rise of M.F.A. programs.
The result is a worsening of the risk cycle and the increased possibility that miscalculation or nationalist fervor will trump common sense.
Lehman Brothers is losing a couple of high-level executives, but the beleaguered investment bank got a backhanded compliment of sorts when a well-known research analyst, citing the increased possibility of a hostile takeover, upgraded the firm's stock to buy.
Filling out his own report card just before his summer vacation, President Bush said today that he had proved, through the enactment of a tax cut and the increased possibility of a patients' bill of rights, that he could end "deadlock and drift" in the nation's capital.
A lower credit rating reflects the increased possibility that the US might default on its debts, as it came within days of doing earlier this month, and it normally means that investors demand higher interest rates to make up for that higher risk.
