Word: travels
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...others, gay tourists' choice demographics outweigh any prejudice. According to travel-industry studies, gays as a group represent a particularly affluent brand of consumer. Childless more often than not, gays typically have far more disposable income than do straights. "They clearly spend disproportionately more on travel than any other group," says Rex Briggs, project manager for Yankelovich Partners, a polling firm that surveyed gay and lesbian spending patterns. Gay travelers also tend to be more loyal than straights: surveys show they are especially appreciative of good service, and, if pleased, will return to a restaurant, hotel or resort again...
...message has not been lost on the rest of the travel industry. Consider the sudden about-face of American Airlines: in 1993 the airline was widely denounced after one of its flight crews had a man with AIDS removed from a plane after he refused to put away his IV bottle; a year ago, the airline appointed a sales manager assigned solely to the gay and lesbian market. "We realized that gay and lesbian people travel an awful lot," says American Airlines spokesman Tim Kincaid, and so far the company has booked more than $15 million worth of business from...
Still, the library is far from in the clear. Along with internal investigations of police procedures, other probes under way include one conducted by the FBI, Secret Service and U.S. Postal Service into the disappearance of Library of Congress travel- and expense-reimbursement checks. The General Accounting Office is conducting a widespread inquiry into the library's financial, human resources and collection management. The U.S. Attorney's office is also conducting a criminal investigation into charges of theft at the library. According to a confidential report issued by afscme local 2477, the union representing some library workers, the Library...
...children. His father was a journalist who saw there was more money to be made in advertising and adjusted his career forthrightly, moving his family to Roslyn, New York. His mother once characterized her strategy for rearing Michael as, "I just get out of his way." He wrote a travel story for the New York Times at age 14 and went to Harvard in 1960 intending to be a writer. But the English department rubbed a blister on his soul (it was "not the place for an aspiring writer," he said; "it was the place for an aspiring English professor...
From the 107th-floor observation deck of New York City's World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty below has the scale and look of a queen on one of those miniature, travel-size chessboards. Ordinarily the deck offers only spectacular vistas. But for the next month or so, visitors will be able to see something else entirely: the Intel World Chess Championship...