Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swiss are upset because the franc's dramatic rise is increasing the cost of Swiss goods and services to outsiders and thus endangering the export and tourist industries that account for 40% of the country's gross national product. In part the upward march of the franc-and other currencies-against the dollar reflects a continuing uneasiness about the strength of the U.S. economy that backs it. The main cause of the franc's extraordinary rise, however, seems to have been some heavy purchases of Swiss francs in the past few months by Middle East governments trying...
What with Watergate and economic woes, TV news coverage of the Federal Government rarely ventures into whimsy. On Sunday evening, however, CBS will devote a prime-time hour to a documentary about an innocent's tour of the bureaucracy during which the tourist learns little but the viewer gleans much...
...Tourist business, and rising rents will cause a change in the retail and service aspect of the Square from community/regional orientation to tourist orientation...
...Cambridge Planning and Development Department has estimated that about 2,250 Library visitors might use the Harvard Square station during summer days. Tourists from outside the Boston Metropolitan area are likely to drive to the site and will probably not use the public transportation system. These auto oriented tourist volumes will probably occur between the morning and evening peak rushhour work-trips...
...prospect of invasion and are set to welcome just about anyone. "For national reasons I suppose I should be protesting against Gaddafi," says Girolamo Sechi, a city councilman. "Instead, I say, 'Welcome,' and the more Libyans the better. They're going to bring 2,000 tourist beds, whereas now we have only 1,000." Adds Giuseppe Cornado, the island's postmaster, with a long sigh: "Gaddafi or NATO. I don't care who it is, just so they bring money to raise us to the level of the rest of Italy...