Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highest economic growth rates in the world, averaging around 11% from 1987 through 1990 and slowing only to 7.5% in 1991. Thailand, a nation of more than 55 million people, is the world's largest rice exporter, a leading producer of seafood and one of Asia's top tourist destinations. Living and educational standards have expanded enormously: in 1965 only about 16,000 Thais were attending college; today the number is perhaps 300,000. Bangkok has matured into an overcrowded (pop. 8 million), traffic-choked city boasting chic restaurants, satellite and cable TV, fax machines and all the other appurtenances...
VISITORS TO MOSCOW this summer need not worry about finding their way around. From Northern Cartographic in Burlington, Vt., comes this user-friendly tourist map that identifies all rechristened streets and landmarks. It even , directs homesick junk foodies to McDonald's. Where did such meticulous accuracy come from? From "redrawn" CIA maps...
...jury convicted three men of knifing a Utah tourist to death in a New York City subway station. The 1990 murder of young Brian Watkins became a painful symbol of random urban violence. Watkins died attempting to protect his family from robbers...
...Where are you going?" people asked. Memphis, we said. Graceland. But also Alabama and Mississippi. Arkansas and West Virginia. "America" was our answer, half facetious but half serious. We wanted to see real life, real people, not just the tourist traps and standard attractions. We wanted to eat down-home cooking in tiny diners...
...fulfill immediate community needs. The University of New Hampshire has been able to squeeze additional funds from New Hampshire's traditionally tight-fisted legislature by polishing its public image with projects like developing a non-toxic bacterium that virtually eliminated black flies, which plagued some of the state's tourist resorts. But the university's president, Dale Nitzschke, allows that catering to the lawmakers' whims is a high-risk proposition. "We don't enjoy a separation anymore between the university and the political system," he says. "It is critical that we don't become pawns of the government, the legislature...