Word: travels
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Bill Clinton himself was on the spot last week. During House hearings on the White House travel-office scandal, it emerged that in early 1993 the President pushed a business proposal by his friend TV producer Harry Thomason. Clinton made notations on the proposal that an aviation business Thomason partly owned be awarded a $500,000 no-bid government contract. "These guys are sharp," he wrote, and put a check in the box marked ACTION...
State visit or not, Jiang seemed determined to wring all the advantage he could out of the occasion. He tried to put Clinton on the defensive, insisting he was still outraged that the U.S. had granted Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui a visa to travel to his alma mater, Cornell University, last June. A Chinese official claimed later that the U.S. "has made it clear to the Chinese side that it has drawn a lot of lessons from the damage it has wrought upon Sino-U.S. relations...
...eased very soon--Bill Clinton will not want to risk the votes of the fiercely anti-Castro Cuban-American community in Florida. But no matter how bad Castro's record on human rights and democracy may be, there is momentum in that direction. Clinton has quietly relaxed some travel restrictions. The embargo is cruel, say those who oppose it, and with the end of the cold war, it is a relic. Trade with Cuba, they argue, would open the country up to democratic influences...
...like to travel," she said. "I'm applying for some fellowships. I would like to work for some non-governmental organizations in land-use planning...
...travel time, it's a huge commitment," senior football player Clete Johnson says. "But a lot of people at Harvard are overcommitted...