Word: tourist
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Bafalis may be concentrating on the wrong issues anyway. According to a poll by the Miami Herald, the voters' biggest concern is the economy. And there Graham clearly has the edge. Under his administration, Florida has expanded beyond a tourist-based economy vulnerable to every economic downturn. Some 122,000 new jobs have been added to the state's economy, most of them in high-technology areas that have proved virtually recession proof. As a result, for the first time ever in a recession, Florida's unemployment rate is running below the national average...
...past, we Lebanese thought our strength was our weakness," he told TIME. "We wanted to be the merchants, the bankers and the tourist guides of the Middle East, leaving the fighting to others. We thought that because we had no military power, nobody would attack us, nobody would fear us enough to want to fight us. The result was that today one-third of our country has been destroyed and two-thirds of it is occupied by foreign armies...
Administrators of our national wilderness have erred by promoting the idea that parks are for people. The problems discussed in your story are caused mainly by our having made these areas too accessible to the average citizen. By allowing our parks and forests to become part of the commercial tourist industry, we have urbanized a region where man should be only an occasional visitor...
...Palestinians who arrived Saturday by sea. The Tunisians had been busy last week erecting a tent village near Béja, 60 miles from Tunis, for the guerrillas. They were also refurbishing the Salwa Hotel at Borj Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes prefers to sleep on the floor. Arafat's movements...
...Isolde, one bejeweled lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave behind his villa Wahnfried, buried, in the phrase of one astonished British tourist, "in the backyard, sir, like a dog." Bayreuth has seen everything...