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<text id=90TT2681>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: My (Ghostwritten) Summer Vacation
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 23
My (Ghostwritten) Summer Vacation
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<body>
<p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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<p> The Japan Travel Bureau, the country's largest tourist
agency, thinks of everything--including an excuse for
customers to make a trip. No one appreciates that more than
legislators from Saitama Prefecture, who take annual "fact
finding" trips to Europe. Besides arranging every aspect of
those luxurious boondoggles, the bureau provides junketeers with
a detailed memorandum to submit along with their expense
accounts. It drones on for 60 eye-glazing pages and is
numbingly titled A Report on European Urban Policy and the State
of Local Administrative Affairs. To give the journal a thin
veneer of originality, names and dates are changed each year.
Yet every report begins "It is impossible to find the right
words to describe such a priceless experience..." and
concludes, "Seeing is believing."
</p>
</body>
</article>
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