Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every shepherd these days is out tending his flocks in a field. To produce a more perfect wool, some Australian farmers are keeping their sheep indoors and pampering them like Park Avenue poodles. They provide tires, logs and rubber balls to keep the sheep amused, feed them a vitamin-enriched mix instead of letting them graze, and even wrap them in cloaks to protect their fleece from dirt...
This is a city that holds 30,000 conferences a year, on the tsetse fly, on slave labor, on trade tariffs, on the future of the Australian wombat. Conferences are supposed to begin and end punctually, and then the delegates depart to make room for the next set of delegates. That is the system, and the motto on the Swiss 5-franc coin is "Dominus providebit" (The Lord will provide). This week the $100-a-day hotels are filling up with visitors to the world's biggest auto show, which is being held at the new Palexpo exhibition hall. Next...
...faced with mounting deficits, then Owner Lord Thomson said he would fold the Times unless he found a buyer within five months. When he found one, his choice seemed to much of the staff, and to many of the Times's top-drawer readers, a fate worse than death: Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, proprietor of the tabloid daily Sun, which features screaming headlines and photographs of naked women, and the equally lowbrow Sunday News of the World. As proof of his good intentions, Murdoch recruited Harold Evans, for 14 years the esteemed editor of the separate Sunday Times...
Possibly this tone of civilized irreconcilability stems from a feeling on the part of Australian Director Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli) that he was himself a stranger in a curious corner of a strange land. But for whatever reasons, the distinguishing marks of Witness are its refusals. Book may help with a barn raising, and win respect for his carpentry, but that does not make him anyone's new best friend. Rachel may dance with him to a tune they hear on his forbidden car radio, or finally embrace him hungrily, but that does not mean that they...
Frustrated that quiet diplomacy had failed to bring Lange around, the U.S. decided to try public pressure. It might have known that this would be counterproductive. Several weeks ago, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke had written to Lange urging him, in effect, to moderate his antinuclear position. Hawke had faced a similar threat from antinuclear forces within his own Australian Labor Party but had managed to stave off efforts to prevent U.S. Navy ships from visiting Australian ports. If the U.S. considered Hawke's letter to Lange to be a "forthright expression" of Australia's support for ANZUS, many...