Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent speech, "but we should understand that there have been certain passive aspects to it and we must correct them." There were a number of fresh corrections last week. The government, for the first time in 25 years, abolished the requirement that Egyptians obtain exit visas to travel abroad. The Council of State ruled that it was illegal for the government to seize individual property, as Nasser did. As a result of the verdict, at least 1,000 Egyptian citizens stand to recover property taken from them during the Nasser years. This week there will be a national referendum...
...twice stopped travel to the Middle East for safety reasons, first during the 1956 war and during the 1958 crisis in Lebanon...
After leaving Viet Nam and the Special Forces in 1964, he put in four years with the Central Intelligence Agency, then squandered two more years of vagabond travel in Europe, Russia and the Middle East with his wife Maura. But the war experience kept nagging him. "I had always planned to write a novel," he says, "and Viet Nam was the compelling subject. I had to get it done while my feelings were still strong...
Timely Tips. One recent article offered some timely tips for income tax-conscious academics (to deduct professional travel, get a supervisor's approval and keep a diary). Another followed up the responses of eight Boston universities involved in last year's term-paper scandal, in which hundreds of students bought papers from "term-paper factories"; the Chronicle reported that five schools (Boston College, Harvard, M.I.T., the University of Massachusetts and Northeastern University) took no action at all against the students involved. Last week the paper printed a thorough compendium of faculty salaries at more than 1,500 colleges...
...week by the city of Providence, R.I. The city council increased the hitchhiking fine from $15 to $50 and made it applicable to the stopping driver as well and the hitchhiker. Even on a local level, society reinforces the values that the transportation bureaucracy has determined: every person must travel in an individually-powered unit...