Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tourists now spend as much abroad as the Pentagon does. Tourist expenditures, a relatively minor matter in the early postwar years, have increased in every year since 1946. In 1969, the last year for which total figures are available, tourists left $3.4 billion outside...
...Oxford University scientist, who is also an amateur archaeologist, came to his conclusion during a recent sight-seeing trip to Egypt. Straying slightly off the beaten tourist path, Mendelssohn visited the great pyramid at Medûm, one of the first built by the Egyptians, about 50 miles south of Cairo. Although archaeologists have long ascribed the ruined condition of the nearly 5,000-year-old structure to the pilfering of masonry by subsequent generations of Egyptians, Mendelssohn calculated that most of the stone missing from the pyramid was still near by, lying in huge mounds of rubble surrounding...
...tourist bus took passengers on a ten-minute ride over a newly paved macadam road to the Caravan Hotel, Sharm el Sheikh's year-old 350-bed caravansary. Before we started, the bus driver turned to a young man. "Nu, buddy," he said, "where are you going without a ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak...
...hearings in the Searsport high school gym, many charged that the highly automated refinery would not create many new jobs. But the biggest problem of all -one that has already caused 13 townships around Penobscot Bay to oppose the project-is the danger to the local fishing and tourist industries. Scientists testified that oil was "an environmental poison" with long aftereffects. Ossie Beal, president of the Maine Lobstermen's Association, contends that tankers and barges would sweep away most of the 186,000 lobster pots in the bay. "If there was an oil spill," he says, "well...
...more room to stretch out and roam around in during flight. At least three lines are offering five-across (instead of six-across) seating on conventional 707 and DC-8 jets. Last week American Airlines started advertising its huge new lounge area with a stand-up bar in the tourist-class compartments of the jumbo...