Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Classmates such as Robert E. Cook, Howard Georgi, Peter B. Zimmerman, Harry R. Lewis and Nancy E. Kleckner won't have far to travel to their 25th reunion...
...testifies to how deep Perot is getting under the presidential skin. Not just because of the personal nature of his needling either -- although that is getting extreme. Sample insults from his latest round of TV interviews: Clinton is "still doing things the Arkansas way, like trying to give the travel business as a political payoff . . . the President ((is)) . . . trying to flimflam the American people." All this in addition to % Perot's now celebrated crack that he would not hire Clinton for any job above middle management...
...officials insist they were as shocked as anyone else when the White House on May 19 fired the entire seven-person travel-office staff without any proof or even formal accusation of wrongdoing. The White House got the FBI to confirm that it was investigating the travel office, as official guidelines permit if another agency or "credible person" first breaks the news. But on Friday, May 21, as reporters' questions became far more persistent, John Collingwood, head of the FBI press office, was summoned from lunch to an impromptu meeting at the White House. With communications director George Stephanopoulos, press...
...scandals that toppled several governments. Officials devalued the lira nearly 50%, which almost doubled the cost of repaying Ciga's $670 million debt. Property values plunged, eating away at the collateral of Ciga's creditors, and the war in the gulf deflated what was left of the 1980s travel boom. Many of Ciga's hotels emptied virtually overnight. "They were good guys, really," says the London banker. "But the problem was they had no way to make money from the hotels despite the high prices they were charging...
...White House failed to take into account that the travel office had a powerful protector in the press, which has long been pampered by the plush level of accommodations. The reporters appreciate the way their favorite drinks are served the minute they sit down in their first-class seats. Family members can come along for a flat $100; any purchases made during trips get hauled back free. A reporter's fingers hardly ever touch luggage...