Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorky arrived in Boston last week on his first trip outside the Soviet Union and declared himself a "freer man." A supporter of perestroika since his release from internal exile two years ago by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Sakharov was traveling with official approval and a blue VIP passport. At a press conference he urged the U.S. to back Gorbachev's reforms...
...Navy Seals and the Most Valuable Player awards, I found "Kathy, having spent her sophomore year in Rome, is now readjusting to ordinary life at Georgetown." This seems unfair--my report, had I bothered to send in the little card, would read, "Jeffrey, a junior at Harvard, has a passport solely for the purpose of identification...
...that sounds more like something to be found on the approaches to the Berlin Wall, then it would probably surprise Americans to learn that foreigners entering the U.S. are often accorded a good deal less courtesy than they would expect, perhaps demand, from a Mexican official. Proffering my British passport, with its multiple-entry visa to the U.S. inside, to a Customs officer, the conversation goes like this...
After providing apparently satisfactory answers to this and other questions, I am waved on, the possessor not only of a newly stamped passport but also of a sense of just how far the final few feet from Mexico to the U.S. really...
...many parents feel they have no choice. A college diploma, once the passport to upward mobility, is becoming a necessity just to avoid falling out of the middle class. Frank Levy, a University of Maryland economist, calculates that in the early 1970s a 30-year-old male college graduate could expect to earn at least 15% more than a 30-year-old with a high school diploma. By 1986 the gap had grown...