Letters.Convention Bureau The Feb. 4 story on the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Convention and Visitors Bureau's reorganization is colored by innuendo innuendo n. from Latin innuere, "to nod toward." In law it means "an indirect hint." "Innuendo" is used in lawsuits for defamation (libel or slander), usually to show that the party suing was the person about whom the nasty statements were made or why the comments . The story suggests that the restructuring plan was in some way a response to criticism from "some downtown hoteliers." Yet one paragraph later, the article recognizes, correctly, that this process was in fact three years in the making. As much as anything it was success, not, as the headline said, "visitor woes," that "sparked" the bureau's reorganization. Enormous growth in its members, funding sources and target audiences prompted the need to create greater alignment within an organization that had simply grown out of its old structure. The headline could not have been more misleading. Later in the same story, Linda Griego is quoted on an unrelated matter regarding her belief that the bureau's executives "feel the city has inferior convention facilities." This statement confuses an important point. The city's Convention Center is superior; the Bureau has always represented it as such. It is the number of hotel rooms and their availability to the Convention Center that presents the challenge, especially compared to what Anaheim, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden offer. A sales pitch can only go so far in overcoming such a competitive disadvantage. In this very tough competitive environment, the bureau's sales force has been remarkably focused. Lest we forget Lest We Forget is a phrase popularised in 1887, by Rudyard Kipling; it formed the refrain of his poem Recessional. As a title, it may refer to any of:
Alan Rothenberg Alan I. Rothenberg (born April 10, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan) is a graduate of the University of Michigan's law school, and an influential administrative figure in the history of North American soccer who is credited with greatly contributing to the growth of the game in the United Chairman, Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau It's unfortunate that our city has obstacles to attracting conventions, but that's the reality. What is not reality is expecting executives and conventioneers to come to our city to see Olvera Street, Little Tokyo, or Koreatown. The LACVB brochure probably aimed (at other points of interest outside the city) correctly, if not politically-correctly. Let's fix the issues, not stretch credibility to assign blame. Pat Doherty Hermosa Beach I was struck by the assertion that LACVB brochures have touted only the Westside and have ignored the core areas such as Olvera Street and Koreatown. The LACVB has had a continuing relationship with the Friends of the Watts Towers Arts Center, and, with its assistance in developing marketing sponsors and media attention, contributed mightily to the successful reopening of the famed Watts Towers in 2001. This partnership has been invaluable and to suggest this neglect is wrong. Rosalind Goddard President, Friends of the Watts Towers Arts Center Touting Transfer I read your story "UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Stepping Up Tech Transfer Efforts" (Jan. 28) with great surprise. As president of Coatue Corp., a Massachusetts-based start-up microchip manufacturer, I have dealt with a number of university licensing and technology transfer offices, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , Washington University in St. Louis “Washington University” redirects here. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). Washington University in St. Louis is a private, coeducational, research university located in St. Louis, Missouri. , University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Yale University, Princeton University, Boston University and many others. Of all of the schools that I have done business with, I found UCLA to be the most professional, efficient, and enjoyable to work with. Our primary contact, Emily Waldron, the assistant director of the UCLA licensing office, was extremely helpful in steering our patent licensing process through a number of potential potholes. Most importantly, she exuded a "let's get it done" approach. Andrew T. Perlman Cambridge, Mass. |
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