But recently the 30-year-old company has been fighting hard to change that image by offering more activities and amenities.

To offer customers such amenities requires new attention to service.

Parnell hadn't offered amenities to any of the other women.

The track, he said, can offer amenities that the parlors cannot.

This project will offer meals and such amenities as a health club but no personal care.

The building also offers better amenities and technology than the company's current offices, he said.

But space constraints at most theaters made it impossible to offer amenities in a private environment.

The purchase of the golf course is also important, he said, because "it offers more amenities to people coming here."

Those places offer amenities like good weather and lots of jobs, he said, but "they don't have high house or land prices."

But most African countries do not offer such amenities.