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M: Hi, Mary. How’ s everything?
   W: Fine. You know, John, I’ m planning to go to Las Vegas for a holiday and would like to stay in a large hotel. Anything to recommend ?
   M: Er! The Hilton Hotel. There is quite a large one. It has 3,174 bedrooms. It also has 12 restaurants and about 125,000 square feet of convention space. There’ re a 10-acre recreation deck and a stage show dining hall. Over 3,600 people now work for it.
   W: Oh, great! Is it the largest hotel in the U. S. ?
   M: Yes, it is. But it may not be the largest in the world. Er! As far as I know, the Hotel Rossiya in Moscow is larger than Hilton. It is a 12-story building that has 3,200 rooms. It can provide accommodation for 6,000 guests. Besides, there’ s a 21-story "Presidential Tower" in the central courtyard. It has 15 restaurants and 93 elevators. And it employs a bout 3,000 people. The ballroom is known as the world’ s largest. Russians are not allowed to live in that hotel. And foreigners are charged 16 times more than the very low rate charged Russian officials.
   W: It’ s unbelievable !