Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive woman and her family standing next to a new Toyota. Thanks to an income of more than $18,000 last year, Chicken Farmer Sun Guiying had just become the first peasant...
Most sightseeing in Rabat and the other Moroccan cities was done from the tour bus, with some opportunity for walking around the first and second days, giving the trip a tourist atmosphere...
Until only a few years ago, American consumers tended to regard 35-mm cameras as tricky devices loaded with inscrutable dials and knobs. Now they are as much a part of the tourist's gear as a straw hat and Bermuda shorts. The company most responsible for the change is Japan's Canon (1983 revenues: $2.8 billion). In 1976 it brought out a revolutionary model called the AE-1. Containing a built-in microprocessor, the camera made exposure settings a snap. An aggressive ad campaign that used sports stars to tout the AE-l's easy handling...
...trip to the Soviet Union came on a whim, without the aid of an In-tourist expedition. Sitting in the Stockholm train station--my train back to Paris was due to depart within in the hour--an advertisement for the Trans-Siberian Railroad interrupted my reading...
...much as could be expected, I attempted to implant myself inside Soviet culture. Analyzing it from within, not above. I ignored the tourist attractions, but surveyed the places which are a part of a Soviet citizen's daily lifestyle...