Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This weekend, a lot of people wearing crimson will travel to rural New Hampshire with sticks and bats to do battle with a group of people who call themselves the Big Green...
...role of beauty and personal appearance in Soviet life. This story describes a week in the life of a Soviet woman. The heroine receives a questionnaire at work requesting information about how she spends her time each week. We follow her through a week and see her travel three hours a day on public transportation, prepare meals for her family, work in a high-pressure research job, attend a workplace propaganda class and rush out to the beauty parlor on a quick break from work. For her, attending to her beauty is a renewing process. It does not wear...
McVeigh and his two sisters grew up in Pendleton, a small town in upstate New York. His father was employed by a company that made radiators; his mother was a travel agent. According to All-American Monster, a biography of McVeigh by a local newspaper reporter named Brandon Stickney, McVeigh's parents were often absent--his father worked nights and his mother led an active social life in the bars and bowling alleys of the area. When McVeigh was 18, his parents divorced and his mother moved to Florida. High school records obtained by TIME indicate that McVeigh...
...times he, or his bureau, has been less independent than he pretended, which has got him into trouble with Republicans on the Hill as well. First there were charges that the FBI went along with White House requests to investigate employees of its travel office. Then there was the matter of the 900 or so private FBI files on former Republican staff members that turned up in the White House. Critics say any number of FBI officials could have blocked the request for their transfer and didn't. Instead Freeh declared that he felt "victimized" by the White House...
...this age of information technology, one does not need to travel to the others side of the globe to learn about the Arab World. All that is needed is a willingness to learn and an ability to overcome prejudice...