Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performance. It proposes consolidating into one department the work of 31 federal agencies involved in tourism. A streamlining of the federal machinery might help, if it did not create more layers of bureaucracy. While the Little report dealt mainly with domestic tourism, the U.S. also needs a robust national tourist office-almost every European country has one-that could encourage travel by more aggressive advertising and information programs. At present, the U.S. Travel Service has only six branches abroad-three in Europe and one each in Canada, Mexico and Japan-and a foreign budget of $8.7 million...
...This place is like a parental tourist attraction. It's packed with sightseeing parents and their oversized cars. And they're all trying so hard to act impressed with Harvard," Martin A. Sullivan '80 said yesterday...
...badly split, is quite different from that in Italy, where only a tiny minority of the people sympathize with the cause of the Red Brigades. Belfast is grim, day or night, but Rome - for those who are not rich or famous - is still a pleasant city by day. The tourist season is already under way. The flowers are blooming, and long lines of cars wind out to the nearby beaches. After dark, however, most of the streets in central Rome button up as the police, armed with submachine guns, begin their patrols...
...land, such as lowering wheels and turning on landing lights, were given. Instead, U.S. officials say, one of the Sukhoi-15s fired two missiles at the plane; the first hit above the left wing, while the second missed entirely. The attack killed a Korean businessman and a Japanese tourist and depressurized the fuselage, forcing the pilot, Captain Kim Chang Kyu, to begin a steep dive to an altitude...
...America the tourist wandered through Philadelphia, then journeyed down the Ohio River across the wilderness and back through the Allegheny Mountains. Encounters with Indian maidens and frontier moonlight enlivened his novels René and Atala and gave many Europeans new notions of the New World. The fantastic journey ended one night in a backwoods millhouse, where the fire illuminated an old newspaper headline: FLIGHT OF THE KING. Chateaubriand raced to Europe to join the army of the émigré princes. But the cause was hopeless, and he fled in exile to England. There he will languish until Volume...