Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson can accomplish that, it can avoid having to travel the comeback trail...
...practice of dispensing jobs and favors to friends and family members. After flourishing for centuries of imperial rule, nepotism still thrives under avowedly classless Communism. Known as taizi pai, or the princes' faction, the children of leaders attend the best schools, get the best jobs and are allowed to travel abroad. "They are always one step ahead of the pack," complains a Peking University graduate student. The privileged range from Vice Premier Li Peng, 59, the adopted son of the late Premier Chou En-lai, to junior officials throughout the country...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson outshot the Lions, 31-2, including a whopping 18-0 margin in the first half...The booters will travel to Durham, N.H., Wednesday to take on UNH, and will return home to face Holy Cross Saturday at Ohiri Field...
...days of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Grinding poverty has been erased. Drugs and prostitution, which flourished when the place was a raffish offshore playground for Americans, have now gone underground. But in the face of those advances, the man in the Havana street is still unable to speak or travel as he pleases. Money is more than ever in desperately short supply. "Cuba is suffering an economic crisis of massive proportions," says a foreign diplomat. "Here is a country with no free press, no opposition parties, no capital flight, a controlled economy and $4.6 billion from the Soviets each year...
...reality of politics played its part. The Washington Post tallied the number of days in August that she combined Transportation Department travel , with campaign stops in key primary states. (The Government and the campaign split the costs of the trips.) She disputes the figures: it was 18 days, not 21, and only 11 were weekdays. "I wonder too," she retorts, "is there a difference between candidates retaining their jobs in Government and a spouse?" Dole doesn't single out the Vice President by name, nor does she use the harsh-sounding term double standard. But she implies it with...