Word: foreigner
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Indeed, while annual international travel has increased, from 124 million global travelers in 2000 to 173 million last year, annual overseas visits by foreigners to the United States have ticked down, from 26 million in 2000 to 25.3 million in 2008. The absolute drop-off seems small, until you consider that it has cost the country an estimated $27 billion in lost tax revenue over the past decade. With unemployment levels now topping 10% in the U.S., the economic benefits of foreign travel have never been more urgent, yet visitors have never been scarcer. "We're welcoming fewer and fewer...
...depart from the frank manner in which he addresses war. Wodiczko attempts to make his audiences understand the nature of war by inundating them with emotionally charged visual and auditory material. He comes tantalizingly close by plastering safe and static public buildings with the frightening chaos of a foreign war, but his aggressive approach overwhelms the substance of his pieces...
...became yet another distraction. Just hours into his first trip to Asia as President and his 17th visit to a foreign country, one thing has become clear: Obama is having a tough time keeping the international focus on Asia with so much else going on in the world and at home...
...because some have worked together for years, both in and out of government. Typically for this Administration, all have strong academic backgrounds and tend to be wonks, more comfortable talking policy behind the scenes than making speeches. In a break for an Administration known for a White House-controlled foreign policy, the State Department plays heavily in strategy and policy implementation on Asia, which has helped create comity between the two centers of power...
...Asia director at the National Security Council. Bader is the one to brief him in the West Wing during the day, to coordinate the agencies in policy formation, and to stand by when Obama takes or makes calls to leaders. Bader spent 27 years in government as a career foreign-service officer focusing on China and trade. Bader came to the Administration from the Brookings Institution, where he had been hired by James Steinberg, now Deputy Secretary of State...