Word: concessioners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As incredible as it seems today, 30 years ago many parks were deemed too remote and unprofitable for business ventures. As a means of enticing companies to offer lodging and other services, Congress permitted monopolies to gain concessions with long-term contracts. As a result, the government's share of...
Thirty-year-old contracts have recently expired at Yosemite, and will soon end at other major parks, giving their managers great leverage in scaling back commercialism. Yosemite Concession Services, the winning bidder for the contract there, has agreed to sweep away much of the clutter of souvenir stores. Slated for...
During their three days of photogenic negotiating in Pyongyang, Carter did not get Kim to address the issue that produced the crisis in the first place: North Korea's refusal to let inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency do their job. Even now the Koreans are portraying as a...
The field's potential has put it at the center of a possibly explosive territorial dispute. Mobil is rushing to sink a well this summer in defiance of a claim by China, which insists that its international waters extend as far as the Blue Dragon site. Beijing meanwhile has granted...
At a White House meeting last Tuesday, Clinton, Moynihan and Republican Senator Robert Packwood debated whether the trigger would bring about universal coverage. Packwood argued that the trigger should not be automatic, that Congress should be required to approve the mandates before they go into effect. At this, Clinton balked...