Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston's most popular tourist attractions is its Freedom Trail, which passes by the historic houses and meeting places of some of the nation's Founding Fathers -- but no founding mothers. Now the city's educators are rectifying this neglect of women in U.S. history by establishing a Women's Heritage Trail...
...tourist set loose in born-again Barcelona bumps into such euphoric boosterism around every corner. "Catalonia is a nation!" exults Jordi Pujol, president of the autonomous region of 6 million people. "We have our own language, our own history, our own culture." To show it off, the city of 1.7 million has seized upon the 1992 Summer Olympics, with its windfall of government money and free publicity, and has catapulted itself into the ranks of Europe's favored capitals. "You go to Milan, Paris or Hamburg, and people marvel that Barcelona has become the most dynamic city in Europe," says...
...fellow advocates, including his brother Cesare and the business consortium, argue that the fair would transform Venice into the "new capital of Mitteleuropa," a center of communications and research. Half the local population has abandoned the city in the past 40 years, they note, leaving behind a hollow tourist playground built on a crumbling, honeycombed island. Without such an ambitious development plan, De Michelis claims, "Venice will become a Disneyland made for tourists only." He charges that opponents are unrealistic -- more concerned with saving churches than creating jobs. "They campaign against the death of Venice," he says, "but Venice...
...than Cheng's. The INS believes former top officers of the Panama Defense Forces sold Panamanian immigration documents to refugees from both China and Cuba in a scam that netted them more than $300 million since 1985. These U.S.-bound refugees paid as much as $10,000 for a tourist visa, plus an additional $10,000 to $15,000 for a Panamanian passport. Among the implicated schemers is Noriega's cousin Ciro Noriega Quintero, the former Panamanian consul general to Hong Kong. "Manuel Noriega was the king of alien smuggling," says Robert Penland, who retired last month...
...Kuan Yew. Over the years, Singapore officials offered to free Chia, who has never been tried, if he would renounce violence. But he refused, maintaining that he had never espoused it in the first place. Last May Chia was sent into a bizarre internal exile on Sentosa, a tiny tourist island just off Singapore's main isle. He is * allowed visitors and free run of the island, where he is the only permanent inhabitant, but he cannot leave it, address public meetings or take part in any political activity without official approval...