Word: journeyer
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...many underdeveloped regions of the world, political instability is a common fact of Home life. Before the journey, visitors should prepare by staying up-to-date on current events at Home, keeping careful track of who is in power and their stances on key political issues (such as who is responsible for cleaning up after dinner). Because there is no judicial system in place, disputes may be resolved by force, or via grudges that may last months or years. In many regions of Home, true government is achieved only through a benevolent dictatorship...
...www.usmint.gov. Thousands of people, most of them surely white Americans, are telling the U.S. Mint which of six images of an American Indian woman they want on a new coin. The woman is Sacjawea, the Shoshone slave who accompanied Merriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804 journey across the Pacific Northwest. The coin is the new gold-colored, quarter-sized dollar piece, which will be minted next fall and which may replace the dollar bill within a few years...
...months pregnant, Sacajawea helped direct the historic 31-person expedition on a safe path from the Ohio River Valley to the Pacific, negotiated so that Lewis and Clark could buy horses for the journey, translated for them and taught them to survive a cold winter on the plains...
...there's another side to Sacajawea's story. Without her, Lewis and Clark might never have survived their journey and thus might never have been able to map the terrain-mappings which enabled American fur-trading companies to compete with their British counterparts. Sacajawea may have been proactive in playing a key role in the expedition, but she was still a captive...
...statute drew bitter criticism early on. The first five independent counsels brought no charges against the subjects they were pursuing, but one target, former Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, was fuming at the end of a long legal journey in which he was cleared. "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?" he famously said when he was acquitted of other larceny and fraud charges that had forced him out of office. Another Reagan Administration official investigated (and eventually cleared) in a separate probe, Assistant Attorney General Theodore Olson, battled the law's constitutionality...