Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THINGS HAVE BECOME SO CONFUSED AS THE CLINTON WHITE House races to fill hundreds of top Administration posts that one senior agency official learned that she had got the job only when a government travel agent called to tell her that her tickets were ready. What tickets? For that delegation to Europe she was heading...
...been accused of abusing the perquisites of his office. A stinging report last month by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility included charges that he received preferential treatment on a home mortgage, allowed his wife to accompany him on 111 trips without compensating the government for her travel expenses, and flew a load of firewood on an FBI plane, among other offenses. To answer complaints of a double standard within the bureau, last month, shortly after the OPR report was made public, senior aides decided they would delay action against staff members who were accused of disobeying rules...
...remain unnamed, said, "The situation [in Saudi Arabia] will become more and more unbearable, and then it will explode because the condition of repression of human beings can't continue forever." She was referring to the mixture of Islamic and conservative Arab traditions in which women are forbidden to travel alone or drive and must be veiled in public...
Furthermore, the woman complained about the restrictions on her autonomy in Saudi Arabia, where "you have to have permission of a man when you want to study, go to a friend's house, work, travel, everything...
Middleton said he did not think the longer hours would pose a security threat. "With the card key system dorms are still very secure. We do encourage people to travel in pairs at night," he said...