Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have grown worse during the twelve-year rule of President Mobutu. Says a ranking Western diplomat in Kinshasa: "We really question whether we are negotiating with people who are serious. We wonder how many of those around Mobutu are concerned with anything other than filling their pockets and making travel plans out of the country...
...that in the West Bank "military authorities may enter private homes and institutions in pursuit of security objectives as they see fit. This has occurred frequently, sometimes resulting in damage to property and injury to inhabitants." The report went on to cite restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly, travel and political activity in the West Bank...
With one divorce for every two marriages in the U.S. these days, it might be expected that the breakup rate among top executives, who suffer special strains of heavy travel, unremitting tension and inescapable responsibility, would be extraordinarily high. Not so. Town & Country magazine surveyed the chairmen and presidents of the nation's 100 largest manufacturing companies-179 men in all -and found that 95% of them are still married to their first wives. The wives of a few of the others died, so the divorce rate at the top is even lower than 5%. The plump paychecks...
...federal agencies involved in tourism. A streamlining of the federal machinery might help, if it did not create more layers of bureaucracy. While the Little report dealt mainly with domestic tourism, the U.S. also needs a robust national tourist office-almost every European country has one-that could encourage travel by more aggressive advertising and information programs. At present, the U.S. Travel Service has only six branches abroad-three in Europe and one each in Canada, Mexico and Japan-and a foreign budget of $8.7 million...
Pioneer Venus 1 will travel more than halfway around the sun, flying outside Earth's orbit for the first three months, then crossing inside Earth's orbit for the last four months of a circuitous, 480 million-km (300 million mile) journey to Venus. This flight path will lessen the accelerating effect on Pioneer of the sun's gravity. As a result, the ship will make its approach to the planet at a lower speed than if it had taken a more direct route across space. Thus a smaller retrorocket will be needed to slow Pioneer down...