Word: tourisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...architectural integrity as a once lovely French colonial capital. The city was scarcely damaged by U.S. bombs. But the roads and bridges are dilapidated and marred with potholes, and haphazardly repaired electrical lines have made firetraps of many public buildings. Although Vietnam has designated 1990 the "Year of Tourism," Hanoi hardly boasts a hotel worthy of the name...
...upheld by the federal courts, that allow the Chippewa to spear spawning walleyed pike in the shallows of 178 northern Wisconsin lakes. Sport fishermen, who are required to use less efficient fishing rods and are limited to three to five fish a day, claim that the Chippewa are harming tourism by depleting the walleye population. "It's 1% of the population exercising their rights to the detriment of 99%," charges Dean Crist, leader of a protest group...
After five years of confrontation that resulted in fistfights and hundreds of arrests, a compromise may be in sight. The Chippewa have lowered their spearing quotas, and the state is making plans for attracting more tourism to the region. But there is still a danger that hotheads will explode during the three-week spearfishing season. "There's fear among people who don't know one another and are suspicious that the other is getting something they aren't," says Robert Tully, a "peaceful witness" who came to Lake Nokomis to observe and document events. "These are all people who love...
...Lebanon how to talk with the city establishment on the links, and he set a Quayle family pattern of buying homes that overlook the fairways. He liked year-round golfing, so he left Lebanon in the winter, first for Florida, then for Phoenix. He was an advocate of improvement, tourism and more golf courses for Phoenix long before he bought his paper there. The Phoenix course on which Quayle learned to play is nestled among a dozen or so clubs, their bright green carpets dramatic against the pebbly desert...
...must re-evaluate its financial position. The country is still flush with cash, having posted a current-account surplus of $69 billion last year, but that is down from $87 billion two years earlier. (One reason is the surge in Japanese travel, which boosted the country's deficit in tourism spending from $3.7 billion in 1985 to nearly $20 billion last year.) Japanese moneymen are not likely to start selling off their investments all over the world, since those were made with long-term goals in mind. But some of the boldness may go out of Japan's acquisitiveness...