Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neustadt compared Thornburgh to MassachusettsGovernor and current Iowa tourist Michael S.Dukakis who, in between stints as the state'schief executive, worked for the IOP in itsprograms for state and city officials...
...aimed at the average shopper." Whoever shops at Byerly's, the appeal is obviously spreading. Lea Plotke, a resident of neighboring St. Paul, claims that she always takes out-of-town guests for a look-see at her Byerly's. Why? Because, she says, "it's like a tourist attraction...
...three bodies, their shrouds torn off, their makeshift graves defiled. In the village, after the slaughter, the soldiers carry Vietnamese children on their shoulders -- G.I. Joes, big brothers to the kids whose village they have just destroyed -- and the soldier who bashed a man's head takes a tourist snapshot of the holocaust. More than any other film, Platoon gives the sense -- all five senses -- of fighting in Viet Nam. You can wilt from the claustrophobic heat of this Rousseauvian jungle; feel the sting of the leeches as they snack on Chris' flesh; hear all at once the chorus...
Pulling off the interstate and driving through small villages with tourist gift shops which advertised "General Store items," seemed a fitting start to a day in Vermont. We arrived at Mount Snow just in time to catch the 9:00 a.m. lift opening...
Some of the deals went bad. One of his first failures was a planned $600 million tourist resort that was shot down by the Egyptian legislature because of concern about damage to the nearby pyramids. Sudan's President Numeiry invited Khashoggi to become a virtual economic czar in his country. He set up a joint venture with the government to exploit oil resources. When Numeiry was deposed in a coup in April 1985, the new government accused Khashoggi of having interfered in the country's political and economic affairs. He is now unwelcome there...