Word: australia
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...that the Biennale is recovering its equilibrium. The prizes were put back in 1986. This year's Leone d'Oro was won, amid general acclamation and to no one's surprise, by Jasper Johns for his show in the U.S. pavilion. One long-overdue new pavilion has been added: Australia's, showing a group of enormous paintings by the veteran expressionist Arthur Boyd, an artist of exceptional if uneven power whose work is hardly known...
...thing for her," said Graf. "She really had felt that she could win it. This is her special tournament." But Steffi never gave much thought to losing. "It would not be the way to go to the Grand Slam," she said. Australia, France and England are in hand, and only next month's American Open remains, in the first sweeping quest on either the men's or women's side since Margaret Court's in 1970. A "special player," a "super player," Martina called Graf, and some say she may soon be as strapped for an opponent as Mike Tyson...
Higher prices mean the dollar amount of agricultural exports could rise this year even as the actual volume may fall. Producers in Europe, South America and Australia will step in to meet the demand that U.S. growers fail to serve. Once those competitors gain market share, American farmers will have to struggle to reclaim it. That is just one more reason they are praying for rain and cheering every drop...
...South Pole. In 1959 the U.S. and eleven other nations agreed on a treaty banning military activity and all nuclear materials there. They and eight subsequent signatories became in effect the continent's government. Members included the countries that lay territorial claim to parts of Antarctica -- Argentina, Australia, Britain, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway -- as well as the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which do not recognize the sovereignty of any nation on the continent. Among other things, the group regulated scientific investigation and enforced a moratorium on commercial exploitation in the region. Like the original treaty...
...pole itself is sunless for six months. But in recent years the Soviet Union and other nations have fished Antarctic waters for tiny crustaceans known as krill and for other seafood. Scientists suspect, but have not proved, the existence of uranium deposits similar to those located in southern Australia and South America, to which Antarctica was attached some 150 million years ago. The presence of other minerals, including gold and diamonds, is believed possible. But since most deposits would lie beneath an ice cap with an average depth of 1 1/2 miles, exploration or recovery is not currently feasible...