the period 1968 to 1970 in connection with

the Houston Hyatt project.    Exh. 2030, at 10-11.    Beginning in

1970, Lisle oversaw the development and construction of the

Houston Hyatt Hotel as president of PIC Realty.      Ballard,

Transcr. at 115, 119; Exh. 2030, at 2.

       During the early 1970s, before the Houston Hyatt Hotel was

completed, Prudential was also participating in a joint venture

to develop and own the Embarcadero Hotel in San Francisco.      Along

with Prudential, the other partners in the Embarcadero Hotel

project were David Rockefeller, Trammel Crow, and John Portman

(an architect).    Ballard, Transcr. at 130; Friend, Transcr. at

759.    As none of the joint venture participants possessed                               -81-

     Following the Embarcadero Hotel deal, Hyatt Corp. abandoned

the Nob Hill hotel project.    Ballard, Transcr. at 135-137.

Prudential later built 8 to 10 Hyatt hotels in cities including

New Orleans, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Indianapolis, Nashville,

Chicago, and Oahu, Hawaii.    Ballard, Transcr. at 135; Friend,

Transcr. at 770-771.    Friend often conferred with Ballard and/or

Lisle when Hyatt Corp. contemplated replacing a hotel manager at

a Prudential-financed hotel.    Id.

     Kanter purportedly met Ballard and Weaver for the first time

in the fall of 1972 at the opening