Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willing to bet on a black-inspired boom to come. The logic is fairly simple: if there is a peaceful transition to nationalist government, then the country's long economic drought under United Nations' sanctions will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever seen," burbles one enthusiastic investor. "The nationalists seem to feel it too. They don't want...
...last week, almost the entire Middle East was in the grip or under the threat of an ancient and dreaded scourge: cholera. Thousands of cases and scores of deaths were registered, but the official figures in several countries were deliberately understated-for reasons of national pride, trade and tourism. Says Dr. Reinhard Lindner, a World Health Organization (WHO) communicable disease expert: "Cholera is the hush-hush disease of our time. It bears the stigma of dirt and ignorance...
...ringing pietism" for his stand on public aid for abortion, and sarcastically attacked the recent Supreme Court ruling. Said she: "Every case the Supremes have heard of late has resulted in constitutional disaster." Among the resolutions approved by the caucus was one calling on feminist supporters to avoid tourism in the 15 states that have not yet passed ERA, and to boycott products made in those states. The meeting was remarkably free of divisiveness. One reason: the sobering sense that the beleaguered movement cannot afford petty squabbles. Fears for the future produced chin-up rhetoric. "I am not predicting failure...
According to the Jewish leaders at the meeting, Carter said that he had an unswerving commitment to the safety of Israel and that in any peace agreement the Arabs would have to give Israel full diplomatic recognition, including provisions for trade and tourism (which the Arabs have always rejected in the past). His Administration, Carter added, will not draw a map setting boundaries. But to banish some of the Jewish fears about his call for a homeland for the Palestinians, he said that such a haven would have to be a part of Jordan; he did not favor a separate...
...profitable management company, made a bid to negotiate a loan for the repairs that would be guaranteed by the city of Paris. The resulting outcry in the press appalled the Société. Scare headlines like WILL THE EIFFEL TOWER DIE? were termed "excessive and exaggerated." Still, tourism is down about 10%, while visitors scanned the struts with nervous attention...