Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Csilla Jacobson, the owner of Omni Travel, recently wrote to the Hong Kong complaining that the present exterior, with its "shocking pink walls" and "peeling plaster and paint" is "totally out of character with the magnificent surrounding buildings...
Once out of the garage you return to that same tunnel, realizing that to travel north on Massachusetts Avenue you must cross all the lanes to your right. Accelerating frantically to pass the other two lines of traffic entering the tunnel along with you, the adrenalin of speed cases away your concerns for straying pedestrians, especially those you might encounter next to the Hemenway Gym. The semblance of a solo aircraft pilot taking off as you push up the hill onto Massachusetts Avenue quickly disappears as your lungs alert you to the most deadly nemesis known to a Cantabridgian...
...later abandoned these majestic pyramids scattered around Central America and who enacted these bizarre rites? The question has piqued scientists across a broad swath of disciplines ever since an American lawyer and explorer named John Lloyd Stephens stumbled across something strange in the Honduran jungle. In Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan (1841), Stephens impressionistically described what was later identified as the ruined Maya city of Copan: "It lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced, her crew perished, and none to tell whence she came...
...editorial's opprobrium -- and his role in the controversial White House travel office shake-up last May -- continued to eat away at Foster. According to a top White House official who read the note, Foster bemoaned "the meanness of the editorials in the Wall Street Journal, which has the ability to write whatever they want without consequence." He went on to point out that "no one violated any law or standards in the White House, yet they get accused of doing...
According to one official, Foster did not mention the role of the counsel's office in several of Clinton's failed nominations, but only the fallout from dismissing the travel office's employees. He felt responsible for the mishandling of the firings and their aftermath. He had forcefully argued that the internal review of the fiasco name names, even though this meant that he would have to reveal that he had told the First Lady about the problems in the travel office and that his junior associate from Little Rock, Bill Kennedy, had called...