When we finally reached Odessa, we told a hotel clerk about our experience.

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The hotel clerk took pity on me, pointing out that in Hindi, the word for tomorrow is the same as the word for yesterday.

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Allan Lam, a hotel clerk who came to play with a group of his colleagues, believes the real escapades were a lot harder than the virtual ones.

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Few things can hurt a brand's word-of-mouth like a rude hotel desk clerk, a high-pressure stockbroker or a perpetually late airline with unsympathetic flight attendants.

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Setting off with empty stomachs, my boyfriend and I asked the front desk at our hotel for directions, but the clerk raised her eyebrows in alarm.

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Their marriage was thrust into the spotlight when the desk clerk at a Vail-area resort hotel told police that Kobe Bryant had sexually assaulted her in 2003.

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Biki's dad, Mohan Singh Oberoi, grew up in a village in what is now Pakistan and started as a billing clerk in the Cecil, a luxury hotel in the Himalayas.

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Would you rather check in at your hotel at a kiosk, or with a front desk clerk?

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When I got to my hotel, I must have looked distraught because the duty clerk offered me a snifter of Calvados and a fluffy towel.

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