Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still undecided about challenging Jimmy Carter for the Democratic presidential nomination, Brown made it perfectly clear that he is already running hard. As he set off on a six-day campaign-testing trip to Washington, New York and Detroit, he sat among the commoners at the rear of the tourist section on TWA's Flight 890, alternately signing autographs for fellow passengers and consulting a thick red briefing book entitled "Economics of a Balanced Federal Budget." His goal, he said, was "to launch a national debate on amending the Constitution to balance the federal budget...
...rebel who marches into a New Mexico diner one morning in 1968 and proceeds to hold both the hash-slinging employees and the dyspeptic customers hostage. Teddy's aim is really not to rob or murder his captives but to humiliate them. He forces a haughty middle-class tourist (Lee Grant) to bare her breasts; he makes cruel fun of the diner's crippled owner (Pat Hingle); he tells a fat young waitress (Stephanie Faracy) that she is doomed forever to spinsterhood. By the time that Teddy departs, his victims have been stripped of their selfdelusions. Meanwhile...
...part it was money madness. New Orleans is a two-industry town (shipping and sightseeing), and it stands to lose as much as $250 million in tourist dollars from cancellation of the festival. Normally jammed this time of year, the city's hotels are half empty. Meanwhile, despite protection by 350 state police and 600 national guardsmen at a cost to the city of $100,000 a day, Bourbon Street merchants began to complain of lost business and increased shoplifting. They promptly smacked a $30 million damage suit on the striking cops and the Teamsters, the union that represents...
...figure in the expansion of American business and technological activity abroad. We may assume that socialist China is less corrupt than Iran was under the Shah. But contracts for billion-dollar installations in foreign lands easily lend themselves to some degree of corruption or private self-seeking. The American tourist trade, available especially to our more affluent fellow citizens, is also unlikely to strengthen socialism except perhaps by the power of negative example. How can China install thousand-room tourist hotels without creating latter-day echoes of the foreign concession areas where the Western and Japanese visitors enjoyed a glimpse...
What they're trying to do is starve you Conchs out of here so they can burn down the shacks and put up apartments and make this a tourist town. That's what I hear...