Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representation suffered from a domino sequence of dropouts. Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin had been known to be anxious to attend the ses sion, presumably to add new thrust to Moscow's continuing global "peace offensive." With U.S.-Soviet relations cooling perceptibly over the Middle East, Kosygin canceled his travel plans and dispatched Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko instead. Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia quickly followed suit by dispatching their foreign ministers. That left Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu as the only Eastern European star-quality representative at the meeting. Ceausescu, of course, made the trip not so much to visit...
...Nixon Administration, while nowhere near formal recognition of China, has been anxious to make small gestures toward easing tension. It has removed some trade and travel restrictions and, after a two-year suspension, quickly agreed to re-establish ambassadorial-level contact in Warsaw last February...
...entice more riders aboard trains. The average passenger may find conditions much the same for a considerable time. Railpax will pay the private railroads to operate its trains; they will run over the same bumpy tracks and be manned by the same surly crews that have made train travel a trauma instead of a treat...
...relations with Technicolor Inc. Since the beginning of his Senate career, he has been employed by the firm as a $20,000 a year consultant. In addition, Technicolor has paid half the rent on Murphy's Washington, D.C. apartment and has provided him with a credit card for his travel expenses. Murphy claims that there is nothing wrong with a Senator picking up pocket money in such a fashion, but the incident is the kind of political no-no that can lose elections...
Cost of Design. In some places, premiums are going through the roof. Auto-liability rates recently jumped 23% in Florida and 90% in Hawaii. That may be enough to push some motorists into alternative means of travel. Bernard White, 23, a teaching assistant at Michigan State, saved $2,100 to buy a new car this summer. Then he discovered that liability insurance would cost him anywhere from $330 to $650 a year, depending on what company wrote the policy. A bit shocked, White did some figuring. "In three years," he explains, "I would have paid 50% or more...