Word: tourisme
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...Bush has got a tough job. The governor runs a state that's been hit particularly hard hit by economic troubles since September 11th. Florida's tourism industry brings in $50 billion a year, but since 9/11, arrivals at Miami International Airport are down 26%. Unemployment is up to 5.7%. And Bush had to convene two legislative special sessions to keep the budget balanced. All that, plus he faces a reelection campaign this fall. If only he had an easy job like his brother, the President of the United States...
...Florida is one of a small handful of states that still relies on sales taxes for its money instead of an income tax. When your leading industry is tourism, those sale taxes can be generous, but in hard times, they dry up even faster than other taxes. So Jeb had no choice but to save $128 million by delaying the tax cut for a year. Not an easy choice to make with an election coming up, but Bush has had solid approval ratings for most of his term. And he's not alone: Republican governors in New York, Michigan...
...Imdamediome, a yellow powder that is dissolved in liquid, reacts with the amino acids in sweat left by the touch of a finger but invisible to the naked eye. Investigators used the chemical to analyze a newspaper found in the hotel room reportedly occupied by the assassins of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. Conventional methods probably would not have worked, say Israeli print experts, but the new chemical helped investigators track down two accomplices in the killing. (The actual killers are believed to be still hiding in the Palestinian territories...
Roubaix, a thriving textile center in the 19th century, was hit by a slump in the '60s. These days the Roubaisiens who have jobs - unemployment is 14% - tend to work in retail and advertising rather than in factories. Figuring that tourism could be an option for a place that had run short of them, in 1990 Gaudichon persuaded the city to convert the derelict swimming pool into a home for Roubaix's unseen treasures. They included a unique hoard of textile patterns and samples dating back to 1839, as well as an art collection that had been closed to public...
...large crack in the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba will open this week as the first commercial shipments of U.S. food in 38 years are due to arrive in Havana. After Hurricane Michelle ravaged Cuba last month, compounding the island's steep drop in tourism revenues after Sept. 11, Castro refused relief aid from Washington, his archenemy. But the communist dictator did agree to pay $30 million in cash for grain, poultry and vegetable oil from U.S. companies like ADM and Cargill--something he had vowed earlier he would never do. Under pressure from U.S. business and farmers, Congress last...