Word: australian
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...flights that originate in Los Angeles. Air Canada has extended its low winter fares through the summer. An economy round-trip ticket between Los Angeles and Toronto that regularly costs $1,044 can now be purchased for as little as $309. Until the end of this week, Qantas, the Australian airline, is offering a number of round-trip tickets for travel in April, May and July from Los Angeles to Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne for the unheard-of bargain price of $799. "In the first 11 days of our promotion, we sold 3,000 of these low-ball tickets," says...
Some London business analysts question whether his interest in the Daily News will outlast the first heady gust of publicity. Others think he is determined to succeed where his archrival, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, failed. Murdoch, who bested Maxwell in London to buy the Sun, News of the World and the august Times, burst onto the New York scene by acquiring the tabloid Post in 1976. During the next 12 years, Murdoch lost $150 million before being legally compelled to sell because he also owned a local TV station...
...Australian salesmanship in Asia has brought in healthy profits, but commodity prices remain subject to mercurial swings. Two years ago, when wool was fetching a high world price of $4.81 per lb., sheep men delighted in their earnings bonanza and stepped up production. They could not have foreseen that China, a big customer, would drop out of the market in the wake of Beijing's Tiananmen Square upheaval, when Western credits were cut off. Nor could they have predicted that the financially strapped Soviets would cancel orders and stop paying bills...
...years the wool growers have been sheltered by a cartel-like mechanism that only helped skew the market. The Australian Wool Corporation, a quasi- official body, bought all unsold stocks at a guaranteed price. When natural fibers became the fashion rage of the late 1980s, the AWC lifted the price by 71%, to $3.35 per lb., which encouraged farmers to swell their flocks. So dominant was Australia in the fine-wool market that its minimum price kept the stuff expensive amid overproduction and shrinking demand. One result has been a turn by Japan to improved synthetic fibers, which are smoother...
...always. We had some bad arguments. Often we turned on those who created noise. Two of our group, the Australian and the Irishman, took way too many risks. After a few months they acquired a hero complex. They wanted to make trips out of the building. The rest of us protested that it would draw too much attention. Imad was very much opposed. After several weeks, the two of them insisted. So we made them sign a paper saying they could not return. They left and somehow got to other houses...