Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Travel: This can get expensive. But if you're really fed up, Omni Travel in Harvard Square can set you up with a round trip ticket to Alaska. Leave today to fly to Anchorage and return Monday, you'll pay $1,106 each way. It's cheaper if you reserve in advance...
...mayor said tourism needn't be tacky or intrusive, but should be thought of as including people who travel to the city for business or to attend scientific and academic conferences. He said the present resources for welcoming visitors to the city are sorely lacking...
Officials have recently taken the point to heart. In Australia the government has declared war on illicit sex tourism, and the federal police have been targeting travel agencies catering to pedophiles. Germany is expected to pass a law by the end of the summer that for the first time would make patrons of foreign child prostitutes violators of German law, as is already the case in France and the Scandinavian countries. "Sexual abuse of children is a crime, worldwide, and will be prosecuted by criminal law," warned German Bundestag President Rita Sussmuth in an address opening a May ECPAT conference...
Last Week, The Crimson obtained an athletics department report that detailed--and quantified--that unfairness. The report found that the department paysb about twice as much in salaries, equipment, travel and other expenses for men's team as for women's. It also details discrepancies from alumni demotions to practice time at Bright Hockey Center...
...evidence of unequal opportunity, the athletes say, is all around them. Men's teams travel more. A women's lacrosse player, wandering into the training room after a day spent being battered and bruised at Ohiri Field, has to wait, as a matter of course, for the men's hockey and football teams to leave. Walk into Bright Hockey Center in the evening, and watch the women's hockey team practice. Stroll in during "prime time"--from 2 to 7 p.m., when most students have free time for extracurriculars--and find the men practicing...