Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GUIDELINES. The Cost of Living Council lifted the previously applied freeze on insurance rates, allowed pay increases for teachers if their contracts were signed before Aug. 15, exempted welfare payments from controls. The council included in the freeze the service fees of wholesalers, travel agents, banks and municipalities. The council also barred employers from using job perquisites, like expanded expense accounts, in lieu of pay raises to keep key personnel...
...will marry; most single mothers do by the time their children begin school. But until then, the going can be rough. For one thing, unmarried mothers find a normal social life hard to arrange. "I'm in a very vulnerable position," says Peggy Fleish, a New York travel agent with a two-year-old son named Peter. "Men know it, and lots of them try to take advantage of it. They think, 'Here's an easy trick.' " Another difficulty is providing masculine influence in the life of a fatherless child. For this, Peggy relies on friends...
...Cook knows, writers were dealing with those subjects generations before the Beats. He attempts to provide some historical perspective with a name here, an influence there. But mainly he depends on rhetoric, and it blows his subject out of all proportion: "No writer better than he has ever infused travel-simply getting from one place to another-with such a keen sense of adventure." This to describe Kerouac. But, even granting such a restricted distinction, any travel book by Sir Richard Burton, to name but one other writer, makes Kerouac's sense of adventure seem like a pinball ricocheting...
Summer has traditionally been a time of trauma for the pets of France. Left behind by vacationing owners who believe that animals, like some good wines, do not travel well, they have languished in crowded kennels, often going on hunger strikes or catching troublesome diseases. For many French pets, those weeks of anguish are now a thing of the past. For about $3 per day, a new pet vacation club will find a pet-loving, nonvacationing family that will take in a cat or a dog-or even a parakeet or snake-during the owner's absence...
...over the U.S. Now Bell works out of Miami, while McKay hangs his shingle in the Port-au-Prince offices of IBO tours, which is owned by the Minister of Interior and National Defense, Luckner Cambronne. The arrangement is more than coincidental. The Haiti statute provides specifically that one travel agency must be in charge of informing the Ministry of Justice of all divorce cases. Not surprisingly, Cambronne's outfit got the nod, and the resulting business...