Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today street vendors sell wares that on any given day may include French bicycles, Australian butter and Japanese beer-all at princely prices. A single can of root beer may fetch $6, a carton of cigarettes $140. The main source of the imports is an Air France flight that arrives every Friday from Bangkok with 45 tons of cargo. Vietnamese who live abroad but still have relatives back home send a steady stream of packages loaded with food, clothing or medicine that can be quickly sold on the black market...
...development of the vaccine began in 1963, when Dr. Baruch Blumberg of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia identified a protein from the hepatitis B virus in the blood of an Australian aborigine. Researchers soon found that the protein, dubbed Australia antigen, existed in large quantities in the blood of carriers. Dr. Saul Krugman of New York University then discovered that when infected blood serum is boiled, the virus is killed but the antigen remains able to induce production of the antibodies that prevent the illness. The experimental vaccine was developed by Virologist Maurice Hilleman of the Merck Institute...
...scaffolds in the construction industry. The firm opened in 1973, but it did not export at all until 18 months ago. Now 50% of Keedon's output is sold abroad, and the company has distributors in 33 nations. Company Vice President Bob Ryland gained a foothold in the Australian market by the disarmingly straightforward method of writing letters to 50 building-supply firms listed in the Sydney Yellow Pages. He received replies from 40 of them. Says he: "Many small businesses are unaware of the opportunities abroad. A machine like ours would cost four times as much if made...
...BASE of this school for soldiers is the fourth class system, a social system which allows a first class cadet to stop a plebe headed for bed at 1 a.m. and demand that he "talk" because he's heard the freshman is Australian and has an interesting accent. It starts on day one--"R" day they call it at the Point--when the new cadets come in at 8 a.m. and by 5 p.m. are shorn, supplied and marching in military formation...
...Chauffeured Citroen limousines wherever you want to go (I hit the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower yesterday) and the food is really incredible. The tennis wasn't too bad either. I won my first match against an Argentine guy, but then lost in the second to an Australian in three sets. I played okay but final exams really tired me out, and its been less than a week since I finished. We're off to Spain tomorrow. I'll write soon...