Reyn Bowman
Reyn Bowman
additional demand justify levels terms took until year
It took us until this year to get back to 2000 in terms of visitors' spending. We're just getting back to demand levels where we can justify additional supply.
everybody expresses fully opinion skewed toward
I think it's skewed a little toward universities that aren't engaged. Durham is fully engaged. Everybody has an opinion and expresses it in a straight-up way.
fun
It's not as fun, but still it's what we do.
drivers officials ongoing signs technical
This is an ongoing process. It's important for transportation officials not to look at things only from a technical standpoint. Only drivers can tell them when signs don't work.
comparison group self themselves view
It's a comparison of how a subjective, self-selected group view themselves in isolation.
engaged hard stay tries university
I've never been around a university that tries as hard to stay engaged as Duke.
beginning five health recovery seeing six
We're seeing indicators that are beginning to show the first real recovery in five to six years. The health is there.
help
We let them know we're here to help them.
job knew media move touch
We knew we had to be on the street. We had to be in touch with the media. ... Our job was to move quickly, and Rosemary did that.