Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robert Howard St. Lucia, Australia...
...Among his worldwide holdings: 47 newspapers; five magazines; assorted TV stations; video, film and record production ventures; a satellite network; three oil and gas exploration companies; printing and paper concerns; a diversified transportation company; and a sheep ranch in Deniliquin, Australia...
...churning out exports at a pell-mell pace, economic growth has reached annual rates in the 6% to 9% range, up from 4% to 7% a year ago. Japan is gliding along at a more modest 3.4% rate, but its government has a plan to spur domestic demand. Australia is bouncing back from its worst recession in three decades...
...Turkey it was always 1952, in Malay sia 1937, Afghanistan was 1910, and Bo livia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, ten in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan. Britain and the United States were the present - but the present contains the future." During his trip, he writes, understating the case, he was "not necessarily looking for progress"; deterioration and decay seemed to him more futuristic. Possibly, though, in sneering endlessly at elderly tourists too poor to visit Majorca, and at the purse-mouthed landladies...
Teams from as far away as Australia and from all over the country took part in the races. Many of the crews were followed by rowdy supporters who braved the cold and rain, determined to have a good time. Champagne toting Rolls Royces to beer kegs and buckets of Bloody Marys were evidence that, as one Notre Dame fan put it. "It's a good excuse to party...