Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gloomier prophets of the American future, the long-term drop in the birthrate means that the U.S. has joined other industrialized nations in a Spenglerian decline of the West. In his forthcoming book, The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), Wattenberg points out that developed nations such as the U.S., Australia and the West European countries, which accounted for 22% of the world population in 1950, are being surpassed by the rapidly growing East bloc and Third World populations. The developed nations now account for just 15% of the world total, and will sink...
...AUSTRALIA, for those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the past six months, is the hottest country in America...
America-born, Australian-bred Mel Gibson is still as popular as ever. And American tourism to Australia has skyrocketed...
STRANGELY ENOUGH, the History department lists offering in the "History of Asia, Africa, and Australasia." I'm not sure where Australasia is, but it does not appear to be anywhere near Australasia, since all of these courses are about either Asia or Africa. Last time I checked, Australia was not a part of Asia of Africa...
...possibilities not only of 12-meter boats but of ingenuity itself. Somewhere along the U.S. line, as Enterprise begat Courageous begat Freedom begat Liberty, revolutionary breakthroughs had been luffing. Then, in 1983, influenced by Dutch technology, a child of the Outback named Ben Lexcen devised a winged keel for Australia II that altered everything. Ultimately developing wings of his own, Conner agrees, "It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science...