Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patrick has opted for an easy life working for an addled travel agency in Cambridge, Mass. "I could flirt with the customers, wear tight pants to work, drink at lunch, and swear on the phone," he notes, but adds, with the grace that saves him, that he wouldn't mind making "a tiny fraction of the world a better place." His lover, Arthur, wants them to buy a house together and settle down for good. But Patrick already knows that he would be "stuck in a passionless domestic relationship...
Renewed strength in the convention and commercial travel market in the first half of 1992 led to the increased occupancy, said Ken Wilson, whose company, Hospitality Consulting, prepared the report...
Some important items from the original show, such as the 12th century ivory- inlaid minbar, or high preacher's throne, from the Kutubiyya mosque in Marrakesh, were also deemed too fragile to travel. When the Spanish authorities refused to lend one of the spectacular amphora-type "Alhambra vases," with its luster glazes and formalized handles like angels' wings, another was lent by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But even in its truncated form, "Al-Andalus" is not an exhibition to miss...
...organization will travel the country challenging congressional candidates to pledge to cut the deficit in half by the end of their terms or leave office...
Both the anger and the human sympathy that animate What It Takes are rooted in this perception. Cramer believes with some justice that the rituals of presidential politics (the sound-bite speeches, the handlers, the mind-numbing travel and the press claque with its self-aggrandizing agenda) end up blinding us to who the candidates actually are and what their life histories represent. "I wanted to know not about the campaign, but about the campaigners," Cramer explains in his introduction. For what fascinates him is "how people like us -- with dreams and doubts, great talents and ordinary frailties...