Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zuke, director of communications for cigarette giant Philip Morris, was calmly addressing planners of the company's Benson & Hedges blues festival in New Orleans when an unexpected visitor entered the room. "You are killing my people!" the woman shouted, turning over tables and ranting that advertisements and promotions aimed at minority smokers are immoral. After 30 seconds, order was restored, and the stunned p.r. staff learned that the outburst was only a drill. Zuke had paid a New York actress $5,000 to stage the disturbance to help event organizers learn how to handle the real thing. "I felt this...
According to Larry Meehan, director of public relations for the Greater Boston Convention and Visitor Bureau, 20 percent fewer local business executives and 50 percent fewer tourists from Massachusetts voyaged abroad this winter compared to last winter...
...visitor to the state will feel the tension between the urban and the rural. Discovering these two cultures can be the best part of a trip. Only in Arkansas can people visit a real blacksmith in Smackover who plays the banjo and then go to the DMZ bar just south (in Little Rock) to hear some of the most alternative of the alternative music in the nation. Interested travelers should show up early on Wednesdays for poetry readings and performance art that only a New Yorker could appreciate...
...grisly scene broadcast on Soviet TV was filmed in a cramped Moscow apartment. A police detective ticked off the details: a man from out of town had called on some acquaintances; the visitor pulled a knife, stabbed the young woman and cracked her husband's skull with a blunt instrument. The woman lay dead on the floor, covered in her own blood. Medics tried to save her husband, but their faces showed little hope...
Beverley Anderson-Manley, Radcliffe College's 1990-91 Distin-guished International Visitor, spoke to a 200-person audience at the first event of a two-day conference on women in developing nations sponsored by Radcliffe and the Bunting Institute...