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...that you're all geared up, don't let rumors of unreasonable airfares deter you. A round trip to England costs only a few dollars more than a jaunt to Chicago and back. But to take advantage of bargain prices, you must go when the airline says you can. Most cheap flights are standby; you get bumped when they fill up a flight with regular paying customers...
...Latin America corruption is pandemic from the Rio Grande to Tierra del Fuego. Bribing in Mexico is handled with the stylized flair of a Latin seduction, beginning with dinner at an expensive restaurant like La Hacienda de los Morales, and climaxing with a weekend jet-jaunt to Punta Cancun or Acapulco. The target of such lavish hospitality is most often the head of purchasing in one of the Mexican government's state ministries, who oversees procurement and importing...
When the afternoon's jaunt through the talents of Williamstown, Mass., ended, Dave Fish was satisfied. But this Saturday's match with Princeton was undoubtedly the most pressing thing on his mind. "My team is pretty confident," Fish said, but he added that, unlike in the Williams match, no one will walk away with all the apples when it is over...
...next SoHo scoring drive--a 75-yard jaunt--running backs Carl Morillo, Gallito, and Schereschewsky all carried the ball once, for an average gain of 17.5 yards, and to cap the drive, Auteri hit tight end par excellence John Cheney for a 20-yard gain...
...students knew that their teacher reserved his pleasures for holidays on the Continent. In Venice, he conducted a passionate eight-year affair with a gondolier. A note in a book found after his death includes an astonishing list of male prostitutes whom he enjoyed on a fortnight's jaunt to France...