Word: touts
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...Punta Iguana, which feels like a mini-South Beach. Less-expensive day-trip options dotted around the archipelago range from Colombia's version of a swim-up bar to a variety of touristy beaches equipped with cooking huts where freshly caught fish is simply but succulently prepared. Everywhere, women tout $8 massages. Beware if you're sunburned; sand and a vigorous rub can really chafe. In a few places, hawkers sell rough strands of pearls - they lack the quality of Asian or Middle Eastern pearls but are still a bargain by U.S. prices. (See the best places to travel...
...drums, guitar, and bass, “Labyrinthes” is also filled with interesting quirks that make it clear that the band has no problem with playful production and instrumental experimentation. Among the bells and whistles, tambourines add a cheerful feel to ”Le Tout-puissant,” and the echo effects on the vocals in “333” provide a mystifying sense of intrigue. Indie lovers have shown affinity for foreign acts in the past, but relatively few bands gain fame without singing at least partially in English. This is not entirely...
...this package as a pragmatic, commonsense opportunity to move forward," Crist, who appeared with Obama in economically beleaguered Fort Myers today to tout the stimulus, told TIME on Monday night. "I didn't campaign for Obama, we don't agree on everything, but he's my President, and my job is to help Florida stay in the black." Introducing Obama at the town-hall meeting, Crist said it was not just important "that we support this stimulus package" but that "we do it in a bipartisan way ... It's about rising above" partisanship...
...scam work. The funds were said to be used for new Haitian-American business ventures in the U.S., Haiti and Sierra Leone. He even used the gambit of a fake investment-club regulatory agency he called Smart Investment Management Services LLC to add a measure of security and to tout independent verification. (See the top 10 scandals...
...would buy one bag of rice.Travel scams take many other forms. I hoped, in this short piece, to describe how Puri—apparently a former stop on something called the “hippie trail” back in ancient history—had a particularly bizarre tout culture (“tout” is apparently a Briticism used for those who offer dodgy and difficult-to-evade street-corner guidance to foreigners). My first morning wandering the beach a man offered to arrange a trip for me in the canoe of a fisherman from the local village?...