Word: tourism
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...among all parties in the Northern Ireland conflict. The Protestant Ulster politicans threatened to pull out of negotiations and possibly bring down Prime Minister Major's government. The draft proposes the establishment of joint institutions between Ireland and the North to work on common interests such as agriculture and tourism. This raised fears among the province's Protestant majority that such cross-border bodies might lead to the formation of a united Ireland. In an attempt to quell loyalist protests, Major made a nationally televised address, in which he re-emphasized that the document would be merely a starting point...
...Dutch crisis was most dire, but Europeans elsewhere were also scrambling to escape the second epic deluge in 13 months. Upriver, in Germany, the Rhine rose to 10.69 m at Cologne, equaling the century's record height dating from 1926. Overflows turned the riverside Altstadt, or old town, a tourism and entertainment quarter, into a Venice North. Murky waters gurgling through the medieval byways filled the basement of the Philharmonic Center. Still, the music managed to triumph. Pumps labored through the evening to keep the concert hall dry, and the orchestra, like the band on the Titanic, played...
Harvard's museums are mostly set up for academic use, and few work to draw casual visitors. For some museums, there is debate about their proper mission in the University community: tourism, teaching or research...
...University should be more dedicated to education and higher learning rather than to aesthetics and tourism," said Devin S. McLachlan '95, CLUH's assistant director...
...missive. Kaddoumi also insists his talk with Arafat was completely cordial. Though disappointed by Arafat's performance, Israeli officials still believe his leadership offers the best chance for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Thus this week the Palestinian authority is scheduled to take charge of tourism and social welfare in the West Bank, and health and taxation by the end of the month. Next week negotiations are to resume on moving the Israeli army out of the Arab-populated areas in the West Bank, to be followed by elections for a Palestinian self-rule council. "There...