Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program that has Wilbur Mills's valuable support is the tourist tax package that Lyndon Johnson is submitting to Congress this week. "We are going to do something about this," vowed Mills, and while it might not be precisely what the Administration has in mind, it will be designed to assuage the itch for travel that propels about 3,000,000 Americans-and 2 billion American dollars-overseas each year...
Target & Muscle. The deficit grows out of the nation's vast commitments around the world-and the insatiable wanderlust of millions of its well-heeled citizens. In 1967, the outflow turned to a flood-between $3.5 billion and $4 billion. Major factors included the tourist rush to Canada's Expo 67, the outpouring of private funds to finance Israel's costly war, the slowdown in Europe's economies and, most important of all, Britain's devaluation of the pound, which caused a speculative rush for gold and put intense pressure on the gold-backed...
...TOURIST TRAVEL. The President wants a $500 million drop in the $2 billion-a-year payments deficit caused by the U.S. penchant for globetrotting. He not only urged Americans "to defer for the next two years all nonessential travel outside the Western Hemisphere," but also promised to ask Congress to put teeth in the ban. Most likely: a head tax of $100 or more per person per trip. If Congress enacts effective curbs, the $14 billion world tourist industry, among the largest ingredients of world trade, will suffer quite a jolt. Some 3,000,000 U.S. tourists spend...
...drastic action. Again and again since 1961, the Administration has promised that the dollar-weakening payments gap would be closed or greatly narrowed. Tinkering and tightening toward that end, the Government put a 15% tax on purchases of foreign securities by its own citizens, cut duty-free allowances on tourist purchases abroad, and finally imposed the "voluntary" curbs on bank loans and corporate investing. Balance, however, remained elusive and the cumulative deficit, after losses in 17 of the past 18 years, now stands at $36 billion...
...middle-aged Spanish revolutionary, played so magnificently by Yves Montand. In sight and Sound, Tom Milne describes Diego as caught between two worlds "in more ways than one: between Spain and France, between youth and age, between the old Spain of the International Brigade and the new one of tourist paradises, between his settled love for Marianna and his yearning for the uncomplicated youth of Nadine." Given this dilemma, Resnais and screen-writer Jorge Semprun probe the nature of commitment to a cause, and the necessity of commitment even to a lost cause in order to live with self respect...