Word: junketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friends' expendituresvary from year to year depending on the success of Harvard's crews. The Friends could spend as much as $30,000 in a year to cover travel expenses alone, Bancroft says. The most expensive junket the teams took was in 1979 when the Friends sent a crew team to Egypt to race on the Nile against Yale and the Cairo Police...
Caroline is one of those New York Women who seems to have been everywhere. She talks of going to Paris the way most people talk about crossing the street. When she turned 18 this past year, her aristocratic Swiss boyfriend took her on a junket through Africa for a change of scenery, and she plans to spend this summer in Sardinia...
Writing is not the half of what the unquenchable Adler, 82, manages to do. A former professor of the philosophy of law at the University of Chicago, he recently completed a worldwide junket to promote the Encyclopaedia Britannica, of which he is editorial board chairman. He was a founder of Britannica's 54- volume Great Books of the Western World, and personally wrote every one of the 5,000- to 10,000-word essays defining the 102 Great Ideas that constitute the heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute...
...Harkin, barely introduced to the rituals of the cloakroom, was bumping along the back roads of Nicaragua a fortnight ago accusing President Reagan of "deception, distortion and duplicity." Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk may have had a point when he said, "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine, and he thinks he is Secretary of State." When Harkin and his fellow freshman Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts got home brandishing a cease-fire proposal from Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the venerable Republican Barry Goldwater said they both ought to be reprimanded for interfering...
...Jake Garn once joked that if he did not get to fly on the space shuttle, he would not appropriate "another cent" to the agency. When NASA obligingly ticketed him for a trip, critics accused Garn of using his political clout to hitch a costly joyride--the ultimate congressional junket. But the Utah Republican dismissed such carping as "sour grapes." After undergoing four months of intensive training to prove that he had the right stuff, Garn blasted off aboard the 16th U.S. shuttle mission last Friday...