Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University recently announced the creation of a professorship that will link the fields of business, labor and government. It also announced the formation of a committee in Australia to nominate candidates for the five-year-old visiting professorship of Australian studies...
...also a business. We're going to sell more advertising and put the price of the paper up [from 20 pence to an estimated 25 pence]. "And if the unions renege on their pledge to cooperate? "There'll be no difficulty in getting on a plane to Australia. I'll close the place down...
...last time Bjorn Borg played tennis in Australia was in December 1974. It was an experience that he and the Australians would rather forget. Borg, then 18, looked more like a weekend hacker than the sport's rising star, losing to unranked players in the first round of two tournaments and bowing out in the second round of another. Borg surveyed the rubble of his fame Down Under and admitted: "I may have let the people down." The people agreed. Wrote the tennis writer for the Melbourne Age: "His reputation in Australian tennis is now not worth much more...
August Dvorak may have died in 1975, but his amazing keyboard is far from dead. It is more popular now than ever In my travels throughout the U.S. and Europe and in reports from Australia and Japan, the signs of a Dvorak movement are pointing to a realization that tired old QWERTY has competition...
...most comprehensive and possibly most successful effort to integrate the Vietnamese has been made by the Australians. Their campaign, in fact, represents a radical break with their once notorious "white Australia" policy. Upon arrival the refugees are housed in government-run hostels for four months to a year. There they study English and attend orientation classes. Most get jobs quickly and keep them. Australian employers find the refugees exceptionally hard-working and stable. Explains Melbourne Social Worker Phillip Benoun: "They've hurdled the obstacles of their escape, getting into a refugee camp and being accepted as immigrants in Australia...