Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bondi Junction, Australia...
...Harvard group, which will begin sending 11 economists to Bangladesh this month, was selected by that country in November over competing consulting groups from the United States, Australia, and England, to carry out the World Bank-funded program...
...with a cheery "G'day. How yer goin'?" Seizing the offensive on the campaign trail, Bob Hawke, 53, is not about to waste a long-awaited opportunity enhanced by some providential timing. On the same day that the way was cleared for Hawke to assume leadership of Australia's Labor Party, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser unexpectedly scheduled general elections for March 5. In the space of barely a month, the charismatic and impatient Hawke could thus be catapulted from party expert on industrial relations to Prime Minister...
...once an urbane Rhodes scholar and a combative political gladhander, an articulate negotiator and a reformed alcoholic. He first attracted attention as president of the influential Australian Council of Trade Unions (A.C.T.U.) from 1970 to 1980. Even before Hawke was elected to Parliament, a 1979 poll revealed him as Australia's favorite choice for Prime Minister. When at last he did join Parliament two years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered...
...power of Hawke's personality has so far given Labor a 52%-to-42% lead in the latest polls. A state election two weeks ago in Western Australia resulted in a startling 7.8% swing to Labor, which now controls four of Australia's seven regions. But Labor has often before led in the polls and lost at the polling booths. If Fraser is the man many Australians love to hate, Hawke may be the one they are loath to embrace. The Australian Financial Review, for example, portrays Hawke as "everybody's mate, but maybe not the person...