Word: fiji
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...skis in 1996, after being approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other applicants, none of whom...
...flights to and from the U.S. fly half or even one-quarter full. Countries across the region dependent on tourism are bracing for a downturn that will be "extensive and severe," says John Koldowski, spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Destinations favored by Americans?like Hawaii, the Philippines, Fiji, Japan and Taiwan?will be particularly hard...
...international locales on a semi-daily basis. These findings, after all, provide us with a great excuse for extending our vacations: You wanted me back at the office for that board meeting next week? Ooh, sorry. No can do. I?ve recently learned that returning from Fiji so quickly could be dangerous to my spatial cognitive functioning. And I really can?t imagine you?d want an employee hampered by such a terrible impediment hanging around the office...
...prove to local economies, travel experts have a word of warning: since the Japanese travel market moves in concert, when a destination stops being the flavor of the month, disaster can loom. "In 1994, during the French nuclear tests in the Pacific, the Japanese ended all trips to Fiji, even though it was 1,000 miles away," says Pacific Asia Travel Association chief spokeswoman Lyn Hikida. "We advise people not to put all their eggs in one basket...
...before Congress nudges Northwest to give you a full can of soda on your next flight (oh, and also give you a dirt-cheap fare for that trip to Fiji), we must ask a much more fundamental question. Do Americans have a "right" to good service on airlines, or even a right to air travel...