Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Australian Intrigue (Cont...
...federal budget deficit shrinks by nearly one-third, as Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch purchases The Congressional Record. "Strom's Mom Scalded Tots," reads the banner headline of the first issue...
...Road Warrior. An apocalypse for the car culture: the good guys have the gasoline, the bad guys own the autos. The violence is glancing, but stings; the vision is dark and hot-rod fast. Australian Director George Miller's socko comic strip is also a textbook of sophisticated film making...
Hopes for its survival were hardly raised when the only prospective buyer, flamboyant Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch, declared the condition of his purchase: the paper's eleven unions would have to give up 180 of the Herald's 800 jobs to save $4 million a year. Nonetheless, the sale went through, five hours after Hearst suspended publication and sent employees home. The settlement, after 30 consecutive hours of bargaining, closed a week of allegations by Hearst executives that the Globe was trying to sabotage union negotiations. Crowed the Herald on its front page Saturday morning...
...almost doubled its circulation in six years to surpass the New York Times, 960,000 to 906,000. In London his Sun was the first daily to display a woman's bare breasts. Yet included among 100 other newspapers he owns around the world are the upper-brow Australian and the London Times. Says Murdoch: "The role of a newspaper is to inform, but in such a way that people...