Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with many foreign visitors, they encountered serious communication problems. "In Europe, a U.S. tourist can always find someone who speaks English at the hotel or at the airport," said Lafont, who is limited to schoolboy English himself. "Here, nobody speaks French. We got along as best we could. In New York we couldn't understand anybody. They must speak some special slang...
...critic but a dazzling one-man symposium. Devils represents Wilson the percipient tourist (in an essay on Italy's 16th century garden of sculptured monsters at Bomarzo), Wilson the memoirist and literary gamesman (in a record of his friendship with Novelist Edwin O'Connor), and Wilson the reviewer-who-was-there...
...investment pattern, as much as its size, worries Hawaiians. Japanese companies have invested more than $250 million, mostly in the islands' booming tourist industry. "If the current pace of Japanese investment continues, it could mean foreign control of the state's leading industry within the next five years," concludes a report of the Republican caucus in the state house of representatives. A Honolulu cab driver is more blunt: "What the Japanese couldn't do during World War II, they are trying to do with bags of money-take over these islands...
Residents whose income is tied to the tourist trade fear that they will be shut out by the new owners. Some Honolulu tourist officials complain that the Japanese are developing a "closed system" in which their countrymen fly J.A.L., use Japanese-owned hotels, buses, shops and restaurants, and Japanese tour guides. "American interests do not see a dollar's worth of business," says one official. The Japanese investors, however, deny this charge...
...biggest new building project in the Harvard area, of course, will be the John F. Kennedy Library, which has spawned a small flurry of building by hotel chains who want to cash in on the tourist trade the Kennedy Library will bring to Cambridge...