Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...British and Australian teams have the upperhand this time because competitors will have todebate "Scottish style" rather than "NorthAmerican style...
APEC as a whole shied away from a suggestion that it monitor regional human- rights abuses, along with any notion that it should move toward trade-bloc status. The group even rejected a change in its awkward name -- Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans calls it "four adjectives in search of a noun" -- rather than label itself a "community." Reason: the term suggests the kind of integration that Asian nations say they want to avoid. And besides, said Hong Kong Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod, "People are a little wary of possibly being dominated by the U.S. I think the majority view...
This movie can't be that good -- it's won too many prizes. The Piano has been saddled with a Cannes Palme d'Or and 11 Australian Film Institute awards. For New Zealand writer-director Jane Campion, the film marks a triumph of dazzling movie art and canny show-biz heart. It's that good...
...Sweetie (1989), about the devastating effect a disturbed young woman has on her family, was bitter medicine; the movie double-dared its audience to find sympathy in its dour or manic characters. In An Angel at My Table (1990), a three-part mini-series based on the biographies of Australian novelist Janet Frame, Campion located her elliptical, microcosmic style. But % this lovely film lost its way before its climax, and before it could find a wider audience...
...true -- sunscreen does provide measurable protection from the harmful effects of the sun. An Australian study showed that people who use SPF 17 sunblock develop fewer precancerous lesions and are more likely to have existing lesions heal than people who used no sunscreen...