Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Romer and her husband David, for example, have made a conscious decision to travel as a team...
...eight glorious weeks, students travel from around the globe--Mexico and Peru, France and Belgium, Germany and Denmark, China and Japan, Thailand and South Korea--to Harvard for summer school to learn English or improve the English they already know. They enthusiastically leave their comfort zones to live in Cambridge, a foreign land with foreign food and foreign people...
...learning foreign languages (I've studied French and Japanese) tells me that our educational system needs to stress not simply learning a foreign language but also mastery of that language: fluency, ideally, should be the goal. I believe students should be encouraged to become fluent in another language to travel to the country where that language is the official one and live there for eight weeks or longer, completely immersed in foreign food, newspapers and socialization with locals...
...with the brutally oppressive Dutch rule of his country at the turn of the century; but the regime that burned his manuscripts and library, beat him so that he remains half deaf, jailed him for 14 years without charges or trial and still bans his books and restricts his travel is not Dutch but Indonesian...
...Otani employees are immigrants. And the tactics used against the hotel are typical of the unorthodox new weapons of labor's "corporate campaigns." Local 11 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees sends delegations to Japan and Hong Kong to rally Asian unions against the hotel and urge travel agents to avoid it. It has secured endorsements from scores of the city's Asian and Latino civic and business groups, as well as 11 out of 15 city councillors, and it blocked rush-hour traffic with a sit-down protest last spring that resulted in 57 arrests...