Word: travels
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After a disappointing weekend which saw the team lose three of four games to division-rival Yale, the Crimson (4-10 Ivy, 8-14 Overall) will travel down the river to that glorified vo-tech school to play the traditional-ly-cream puffy Beavers...
Foreign buyers of all sorts and sources come shopping. Some work for multinational corporations with an eye to cheap supplies. Others are front men for organized crime or outlaw regimes, part of a swelling tide of agents who haunt export harbors on the Baltic Sea and travel the countryside. For help, many turn to Russians skilled in the use of blat (personal connections) and vzyatki (bribes) to oil the gears of the postempire black market...
...buyers take the most profitable -- and dangerous -- route of traveling directly to the mining cities to find a contact and cut a deal without middlemen. After weeks of travel, we knew how risky that could be, but we had also discovered that the KGB was running most of the clandestine trade to generate hard currency to help support the secret-police agency. "The KGB has no real mission anymore. Its budget has been slashed, and Yeltsin has signaled a purge is on the way," explained a Western intelligence source. "But conservatives in the defense establishment believe...
Perhaps such chaos is an inevitable by-product of an economy turned upside down, but aviation experts warn that air travel is an enterprise in which even minute compromises in standards are inevitably measured in human lives. "Russian air safety," says Dan Cook, editor of Air Safety Week, "unfortunately is an oxymoron." Cook means what he says: on a recent inspection trip to Moscow, he and a team of safety inspectors declined to use Aeroflot. They flew Finnair instead...
Members of the Harvard Club of Dallas, where Green will visit, offered conflicting opinions yesterday on the lame duck provost's travel plans...