Word: traveled
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...experience since the Plaza Accord, however, indicates that the trade problem is much thornier than that. One of the most immediate effects of a dollar decline should be a decrease in foreign travel by Americans -- but there the U.S. suffered a $5.2 billion deficit last year. Apparently, the rising cost of staying in Paris or Rome has been offset by cheaper air fares, among other things. Moreover, even while the international purchasing power of the dollar has declined since the Plaza Accord, the price of imported goods in the U.S. has often failed to rise by an equivalent amount...
...tough to win back-to-back road games, but we can't afford any more splits," Delaney Smith said. The Crimson face The Big Red in Ithaca, N.Y., February 1, and then travel to New York to complete a 14-game road streak with a match-up with the Lions the following night...
...sound and an annoying half-second delay because signals must be sent 22,300 miles up to a communications satellite and back down again. Fiber-optic technology, by contrast, delivers a comparatively pure sound. The ultrathin glass fibers in the cable carry information on laser beams of light, which travel with virtually no susceptibility to electronic interference. Long-distance telephone companies have already installed more than 20,000 miles of fiber- optic cables to connect major cities in the U.S., but the undersea phone lines represent a big leap forward...
Another form of recreation for Roth is travel. In the early '70s, he left for Prague. An impression later arose that he went to Czechoslovakia out of guilt, a rich American attempting to atone for his success by visiting oppressed Soviet-bloc writers. "Guilt?" Roth asks. "I was out to have a good time." But he found Prague "overwhelming within an hour. I felt, as I did when I went to Jerusalem later, that this was a place I had to see again...
...Zollner Pistons eventually became the Detroit Pistons, showing that some nicknames travel well. The Brooklyn Dodgers, named for the difficulty of evading trolley cars in the famous borough, are now the Los Angeles Dodgers, where evading mayhem on the freeways is equally hard. The name Los Angeles Lakers, however, makes no sense at all, though it did when the team was in Minnesota. Utah, with its Mormon tradition, could easily have accepted the New Orleans football team (the Saints, as in Latter-Day Saints and saints who go marching in). Instead it got the New Orleans basketball team, now known...