Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 3 missiles lifted off from the remote Xinjiang region and traveled some 6,000 miles to a target zone near the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. There, a flotilla of 18 Chinese tracking ships was joined by kibitzing vessels from the U.S., the U.S.S.R., France, New Zealand and Australia. The observers took note of the successful splashdowns with a healthy respect...
Davidson, the new chairman, is an alumnus of Stanford University, former managing director of TIME International and publisher of TIME magazine for six years, during which it prospered handsomely. "An internationalist, a salesman, an executive," Heiskell says. "He's as comfortable in Mozambique, London or Australia as he is in New York or skiing in Sun Valley." Davidson will represent the company to the outside world and supervise Time Inc.'s dealings with Washington, foreign and local governments, and business groups...
...through free meditation classes, concerts and art exhibits. Chinmoy himself is based in New York, where he leads meditations for diplomats and clerks at the United Nations. There are nearly 20 Chinmoy centers in the U.S. and 40 others in nations such as Germany, Japan, Canada, Iceland and Australia...
...haunts the novel; it is the center of these impersonal forces, their measure. Characters swing with "the pendulum of an era," obeying some physics of oscillatory motion. But below the philosophic dimension we recognize a close attention to contemporary detail of world and cultural history. We see "brutish, bottomless" Australia during the war and after, when Caro and Grace Bell are there, existing in the unimpassioned hopelessness and nowhereness of a place where "history's shrivelled chronicle" has already "terminated in unsuccess." When their mother drowns in a bizarre boating accident, we read, "Greece fell, Crete fell, there...
John Trainer, M.P. South Plympton, Australia...