Word: australia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Niemans from abroad are: Graeme H. Beaton from Australia; Khen V. Chin from Malaysia; Tomas O. Dillen from Sweden; Dominique Ferry from France; Michael H.C. McDowell from Northern Ireland; Michael McIvor from Ontario; John S. Mojapelo from South Africa; Sabam P. Siagian of Indonesia; Donald J. Woods from South Africa; and Royston J.A. Wright from Sierra Leone...
...these vulnerable young males are surviving. Also, in the past generation, Britain has not been involved in any major wars. Nor is there any longer a great empire to siphon off extra males. On the contrary, many males are coming in from the old colonies, even from underpopulated Australia, because opportunities are perceived to be greater in the mother country...
...asset-on the reasonable ground that the volume of world trade and investment should not depend on how much of a yellow metal can be dug out of the ground in South Africa. But the price rise is renewing gold's glitter in the eyes of central bankers. Australia, Italy, France and The Netherlands, all financial allies of the U.S., have revalued their gold holdings from the old official rate of $35 an ounce to the prevailing market price, thus multiplying the value of their reserves with the scratch of a pen. The U.S., which has not joined...
...late 1950s and early 1960s Chrysler Corp., like many another U.S. company, transformed itself into a multinational: it built or bought plants from Turkey to Australia so that it could compete worldwide with GM and Ford. But in recent years the foreign operations have brought Chrysler more pain than profit, so now the financially beset smallest member of the U.S. Big Three seems well on its way to turning itself into something much rarer: an ex-multinational...
...Peugeot, thus shedding 70% of its foreign production and about a fourth of its worldwide output. Additionally, in the past year the company has sold operations in Argentina and Turkey to local investors; it is dickering to have Japan's Mitsubishi take over at least part of Chrysler Australia and has been trying to induce Volkswagen to buy part of Chrysler Brazil. Chrysler may sell some other Latin American operations...