Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article on the U.S. trade mission to Japan, there was a very clear error. The trip was not "paid for entirely by Washington." The American businessmen paid all of their travel expenses, plus a $1,000 to $1,800 fee to the Department of Commerce to help defray the costs of the mission...
...with the Arab interpretation of the Camp David accords. Israeli officials sharply criticized Saunders for endorsing Arab sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem, though this has been American policy for more than a decade. Most of all, the Israelis seemed to resent the timing of the Saunders trip, coming as it did while the Washington peace talks were in progress and while Begin was busy preparing his people and his parliament to support a settlement...
...express finally chugged into its Zambian terminal eleven hours late. We were lucky at that. Freight trains normally require 20 days or more to make the round trip, owing to equipment failures, crashes, derailments and endemic small-scale pilfering. About 30% of the 2,100 freight cars, and up to a third of the locomotives, are out of commission at a time...
...John Paul showed that he could be firm, he also demonstrated he could be highly unpredictable. An example came last week with his trip to a Rome hospital to see ailing Bishop André-Marie Deskur, the same friend he had visited the day after his election. According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing...
Benedict makes a quick trip by pickup truck around his 3,500 acres of wheat and sugar beets. At each of many stops he whips out a pocket calculator and does some rapid figuring before giving the hired hands orders on, say, exactly how much pesticide to spray on each field. By 8 a.m. he is heading home to start the most important part of his day: several hours spent at a rolltop desk in his small study. There Benedict goes over computer print-outs analyzing his plantings acre by acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output...