Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German with the bell on his pack at the Russian Embassy, Farewell champagne toasts on platform 7 a.m. departure, Great Wall. Noodle soup with Chinese scientist in the dining car. Talk about China; big cheer from English students as we leave. Chinese home movies at Er Lian station: "Peasant Tourist Makes Visit to Scenic Spot...
...major benefactor of the robust dollar is the American tourist. Especially in Europe and Latin America, U.S. visitors are getting much more mileage from their traveler's checks than they were a year ago. Even though some hotels that cater to well-heeled visitors regularly raise their prices to keep pace with foreign currency changes, good values abound. In Paris, a four-course dinner at the three-star Tour d'Argent goes for about $54, expensive by most standards but still $17 cheaper than two years ago, thanks to a 74.8% appreciation in the dollar against the French...
Travelers to Italy will find their best values away from the beaten tourist track. At La Badia, a converted 12th century monastery 75 minutes north of Rome, double rooms cost $33. Lunch at Peppone, a very good medium-priced trattoria off the Via Veneto, costs $16, including appetizer, dessert and drinks. Status shoppers can pick up a pair of black Gucci loafers at $92 for men, $72 for women, or about 40% to 50% less than on Fifth Avenue...
...exploring in depth some of the social roles--mother, tourist, Jew--she has accepted. Pastan gives her writing the special vitality that comes only from external matter. The poems in PM:AM are always reaching out beyond conventional scope, grabbing onto things that exist wholly apart from the poet and her realm of existence...
THAT THE RACE is still too close to call may actually prove that the voters like Emery-Reagan economic because almost every other issue in the campaign has worked in favor of Mitchell The acid rain problem is a case in point Maine's tourist economy is heavily dependent upon sport fishing, and the poisoning of many of the state takes by acid rain has driven away both the fish and the out of staters who came to catch them Mitchell scored points when he addressed this concern by sponsoring an acid rain bill and pushing it through the environment...