Word: exoticism
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Several other choice deductions will become less appealing next year. Trips to investment seminars in exotic places, for example, will no longer be deductible for anyone but financial planners. Thus individuals who enjoy investment seminars in Bermuda and the like may want to take one last tax- deductible fling in...
For those uninclined toward full-day trips to Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine a trip to the Arnold Arboretum might do just as well. At the end of the Red Line in Jamaica Plains, the arboretum offers a beautiful foliage display and promises some more exotic trees.
A new era is dawning in the West, the era of light. Under city streets and beneath oceans, in commercial skyscrapers and recesses of the Pentagon, a host of new technologies based on lasers, ultrapure glass fibers and exotic new materials are challenging the wonders of conventional electronic gadgetry. In...
Fiber-optic cables, hooked directly to consumers' homes, will eventually provide reception of almost limitless numbers of cable-TV channels and other more exotic services. For example, a joint venture of French communications companies has broken new ground by stringing fiber-optic cables to the homes of 1,500 telephone...
That history is almost as old as the night. In the Odyssey, Odysseus visited the land of the dead, where he reported that "pale fear got hold of me" as the spirits rose up to drink blood. Every ethnic group has spun folktales of the ungrateful dead. Even so, horror...