Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people, including journalists. He said that the last of his direct pleas was made in July. He and Rockefeller then sought to find asylum elsewhere for the Shah. Rockefeller found a temporary residence in the Bahamas, and Kissinger persuaded the government of Mexico to admit the Shah on a tourist visa...
...with turquoise trim, took off from Auckland Airport. Coddled by a solicitous crew of 20, the 237 passengers settled down to a hefty breakfast as they began an exotic aerial voyage: an eleven-hour, 7,189-mile flight over the savage, frozen scenery of Antarctica. The $365 tourist junket, of a kind that has become popular in Australia and New Zealand in recent years, had been advertised as "a voyage to the end of the world...
...university then proposed splitting the library into two parts-a Harvard research collection and a museum and tourist center elsewhere. Meanwhile, UMass offered the scenic harbor site. One drawback: it had once been used as a garbage dump. There was talk as well of more rural settings. But Widow Jacqueline argued that Jack was a man of the city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will...
...unfortunate, but that's the way it is." From policemen to Cabinet officers, officials routinely ask for and get bribes, ranging from the $2 that will persuade a traffic cop to tear up a ticket to the multimillion-dollar fraud allegedly perpetrated by the former head of a government tourist fund...
...Everybody accepts the fact that Presidents grow rich in office," says a university professor. Indeed, the President's salary is one of Mexico's best-kept secrets. Miguel Aleman Valdes, for example, made multimillion-dollar investments in Acapulco real estate that turned the Pacific Coast city into a famous tourist attraction...