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Saturday March 21st, 2020 day edition

Marriott CEO says coronavirus is ‘like nothing we’ve ever seen,’ cuts his salary to $0
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Marriott (MAR) CEO Arne Sorenson became one of several company chief executives that he will not be taking a salary for the rest of the year, responding to the fallout from the coronavirus.

“In terms of our business, COVID-19 is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” Sorenson said.

“For a company that’s 92 years old, that’s borne witness to the Great Depression, World War II, and many other economic and global crises, that’s saying something.”.

The leader of the world's largest hotel company added: “I will not be taking any salary for the balance of 2020 and my executive team will be taking a 50% cut in pay.”.

View photos Arne Sorenson, president and chief executive officer of Marriott International Inc., at the White House on Tuesday, March 17, 2020.

The hospitality industry has been crushed due to the coronavirus, or COVID-19, as occupancy rates plummet due to various restrictions.

The average daily rate for rooms has dipped more than 10%, and the revenue per available room has dropped by 32.5%. »

Country Music Icon Kenny Rogers Dies at 81
Authored by variety.com
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“I came into country music not trying to change country music but trying to survive,” he said in a 2016 interview with CMT.com. “And so I did songs that were not country but were more pop.

But I told somebody the other day, country music is what country people will buy.

Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Country Music Association the same year. »

Intelligence officials were warning Trump about a pandemic as early as January, but they 'couldn't get him to do anything about it'
Authored by businessinsider.com
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The US intelligence community was warning President Donald Trump about an impending pandemic as early as January, The Washington Post reported.

"Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn't get him to do anything about it.".

United States intelligence agencies were warning President Donald Trump about an impending pandemic as early as January, The Washington Post reported. »

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