Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With $50 million in spare cash, Harrah's is starting to search elsewhere for new jackpots. On the drawing board at corporate headquarters are plans for an Australian casino ("They're the gamblingest fools in the world down there," says Dyer) and "Harrah's World," a Disney-like entertainment-gambling complex west of Reno. But the company's aversion to debt and its insistence on rigid controls over the tiniest details of its business mean Harrah's will probably not diversify very fast. The odds are heavy against its opening a casino in New Jersey...
...price it had set; to preserve appearances, another member would be chosen to bid at a higher price sure to be rejected. The cartel also imposed penalties on members. On one occasion, it ordered Gulfs Canadian subsidiary to buy 300 tons of uranium from an Australian company, as a penalty for attempting to step into a deal that the cartel had earlier approved for the Australian firm and a Japanese customer...
...intimate acquaintance of several English tongues, Partridge was born into the proper English of New Zealand and was introduced to Australian slang as a student at the University of Queensland. He later served with the Australian army in World War I-thereby learning the military idiom-before ending his linguistic tour in the rarefied dialect of Oxford. To fill in the gaps, he relies on an extended network of correspondents. They also keep him abreast of changes that "on balance, I should say are to the good." He particularly likes "wonderful American expressions such as skyscraper" but dislikes the "pitiable...
...brass band struck up Waltzing Matilda, and the Odd Couple strode to the dais in Melbourne's Exhibition Building. Two former Australian Prime Ministers of opposing parties, Sir John Gorton (Liberal, 1968-71) and Gough Whitlam (Labor, 1972-75), were on the same political platform...
Most of the spectators aboard Provincetown seem to be masochists who laid out $100 for the whole series. On my right a pretty, middle-aged woman holding a small Australian flag confides that she comes from Virginia and watched the 1974 races from this very spot. "I've spent five days on this boat this time," she adds. "I feel as if I'd crossed the Atlantic in her." On my left is a Canadian. There is a heavy scattering of Australians...