Word: tourists
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...trees of Washington and Oregon, the great Douglas firs and red cedars? Stay in your car. Keep to the main roads. Avoid high, distant views. In the national forests here, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service has been to leave buffer zones of uncut trees along the tourist highways. It is prettier that way. It is also easier for the Forest Service, which has fewer letters of outrage to answer about the scarification that used to be a coastal rain forest...
...Queensland, beautiful one day, perfect the next," burbles a middle-aged vacationer in a tourist ad for the state in northeastern Australia that has one of the country's most glorious coastlines. In a version written by Australian Comic Gerry Connolly for a TV comedy show, a beaming Japanese businessman delivers the punch line, "Ah, Queensland, beautiful one day, Japanese the next...
...face of it, Japan's growing involvement in their country should be good news for Australians: solid investors, solid tourist dollars, solid profits for all. Yet young Queenslanders in particular are voicing fears that they will eventually become part of a service class of waiters and cabdrivers for wealthy Asians...
...such reassurances, a plan inspired by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry to build a satellite city for retired Japanese expatriates on Australia's east coast seems to have been shelved. When a Japanese company earlier this year bought Brisbane's Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, a ranking tourist attraction, 1,300 angry Gold Coasters jammed a protest meeting. Reported Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Tsuneo Sugishita: "I was seized by the illusion that I was attending an anti-Japanese rally in a country at war with Japan...
Richards continued the attack by trying to show that Bush isn't a real Texan. Bush's voting residence is a room at the Houstonian, a hotel in Houston. This even prompted the head of the Texas delegation to call Bush a tourist...