Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pass any pests they find to an insect identifier, a botanist and a plant pathologist for cataloging. An additional 60 inspectors are assigned to the airport's five international- arrivals areas, where they watch for illegal agricultural material in the bags of passengers filing through Customs. But increased travel and shipping have strained these resources. In the past decade the number of passengers entering the country has grown dramatically, and imports of nursery stock, cut flowers and foliage, particularly for offices, have boomed. "The growth (in the cut- flower industry) has brought new pest potential," says J.F.K.'s insect identifier...
...hijacker had a Syrian passport, a second a Bahrain passport, and a third Palestinian travel documents, said Pakistani intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. They said the nationality of the fourth hijacker was not known...
...question is whether it will be opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's The Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving The Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
However, the Secret Service will travel withJamaican Prime Minister Edward P.G. Seaga...
...England-born, old England-based Paul Theroux knows how to take care of literary business. Since 1967 he has published ten novels, four novellas, three short-story collections and five travel books, including The Great Railway Bazaar. He has paid his dues as an essayist and reviewer; his varied fiction has harmonized into a respected oeuvre; and he has had a glamorous payday: his 1982 novel The Mosquito Coast is, as they say, soon to be a major motion picture...