Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CROCODILE DUNDEE takes a comic turn as the film leaves Australia for the wilds of New York, where Susan has brought Mick for a visit. She shows him the best the city has to offer: cabbies, muggings, pimps and pretentious Italian restaurants, and he approaches every new experince with optimism, humor and clever tricks from the outback...
...unfortunate that the point was not raised earlier this summer, before the United States enraged its allies, particularly Australia, through a surprising wheat deal with the Soviets, in which billions of dollars worth of American grain were dumped on the Soviet market below cost...
...been worse. The Labor Party under Prime Minister Bob Hawke had already begun to suffer an alarming drop in popularity, most notably because of a crisis in foreign exchange. Emergency measures had to be enacted to shore up the plummetting Australian dollar. Treasurer Paul Keating voiced his fear that Australia was heading for "banana republic" status. And so, in light of looming economic disaster, the government introduced the so-called "horror budget" which called for massive federal cutbacks...
...sort of stumps, but many, many of them." He later returned to the site, landed nearby, collected samples and brought them to Basinger, who immediately began planning this summer's expedition. Aided by a grant from the Geological Survey and accompanied by another fossil-forest specialist, Jane Francis, from Australia's University of Adelaide, he spent two weeks in July investigating the ancient forest...
...period, the Arctic climate resembled that of Northern California today, with one exception: that far north, the sun never sets in summer and never rises in winter. "How did the trees grow so lushly in five months a year of blackness, without photosynthesis?" McMillan wonders. Francis, now back in Australia with samples of wood, leaves and soil from the island, suggests one possibility: "It may be that they shed their leaves and just stood dormant until it became light again, and then grew like...