Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large extent, political stability in Portugal will depend on the government's skill in solving the country's economic problems. Unemployment has been aggravated by the return of thousands of troops from the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, and another dismal tourist season like last year's could prove disastrous. Moreover, both Soares and Communist Party Chief Alvaro Cunhal recently stressed in interviews with TIME that the biggest problem will be to find the experienced personnel to run the newly nationalized industries. "We don't want to substitute state capitalism for a monopolistic one," said Soares...
...temporary refuge for most of the Americans and Vietnamese evacuated from Saigon was the U.S.-administered island of Guam in the Western Pacific-"where America's day begins," as tourist brochures endlessly remind visitors. For thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
...West. The area's mood is one of cautious optimism hedged with severe reservations. Some consumer-goods companies and conglomerates that have had freezes on hiring are now beginning to take on a few more workers. Total employment is rising in California, though still declining nationwide. Tourist businesses are flourishing because of a trend to vacation in the U.S. instead of overseas. Housing starts remain low, and 40% of the carpenters in San Diego are unemployed, but increasing demand for mortgages indicates a bottoming-out in that industry...
...Maine would be deprived for the 40 years needed for forest regeneration of at least $13.6 million a year in taxes from the forest-products industry. Workers and businesses serving the timber industry could lose another $106 million per year. Beyond that, Maine's $450 million-a-year tourist industry will suffer; no campers or hunters will want to go into a gloomy wasteland of dead trees. In the competition with the budworm, concludes Lester De-Coster, New England regional manager of the American Forest Institute, "man cannot afford to lose...
...Resistance fighters, anticipating the advancing American troops, began to drive out an occupying German army. In the small French village where Gertrude Stein had spent the war, the German officers couldn't understand what was happening. The German captain promised to come back in a few months, as a tourist--even though it was clear how the war would end. German planes were still bombing Resistance-held villages--and he cried when he said goodbye, expecting his French chauffeur to sympathize with him. Stein was deliriously happy--proud of the American liberators and amused by the retreating Germans. "They...