Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, the rest of the West Bank will move toward what is being called "early empowerment," a kind of preliminary self-rule in education, health, social services and taxation. The Palestinians will also win control of the tourist industry, which has suffered greatly during the uprising but could be quite profitable. Israeli occupation authorities and soldiers will remain for a while, but only until a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority is elected to govern the whole of the territories...
...Until several years ago, the best chance of finding instant felicity was to go to Japan, a society that polls still purport to be among the most satisfied on earth. A principal reason for such fulfillment no doubt lay in one of the country's most alluring tourist attractions: a remote railway depot on the northern island of Hokkaido called Koufuku Eki, or Happiness Station. There, travelers whose feet had strayed from the path to contentment could set themselves aright by reaching into their pockets, plunking down $2.10 and buying, literally, "a ticket to Happiness...
Perhaps the unlikeliest stage event of the decade will occur next month in ye olde and quainte Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian...
Traditionally, one of Europe's cheapest destinations has been Yugoslavia's Dalmatian coast, which once brought $2 billion a year into the province, now the Republic, of Croatia. But that was before war ravaged charming ports such as Dubrovnik. Croatian tourist officials are now repairing damaged buildings and discreetly moving refugees from beach hotels into the interior. Still, recovery is slow: car-rental agencies in neighboring countries have inserted into their contracts clauses canceling insurance the minute their vehicles enter Croatia...
...show of fulfilling Karadzic's original promise to pull back, troops began to move off the mountainsides, accompanied by tanks, trucks and jeeps. As they left, they apparently set fire to several ski lodges. In the town of Trnovo, southeast of Sarajevo, hundreds of grimy soldiers lined up for tourist buses that would carry them away from the peaks they had captured after 10 days of heavy fighting. Some displayed the souvenirs of victory: a Bosnian flag, a helmet with an inscription in Arabic script, street signs from occupied towns. "We follow orders," said one soldier, "but men should...