Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wisconsin-based G. Heileman Brewing had been enjoying heady success until Australian raider Alan Bond took over the company in 1987 for $1.6 billion. Bond's empire collapsed two years later, leaving the brewer swamped with debt. Heileman is now attempting to give creditors an equity stake in return for loan relief...
...business-as-usual at Exxon's Manhattan headquarters was suddenly shattered last week by the howling of guitars and a raw-edged voice singing "You cut all the tall trees down, you poisoned the sky and the sea . . ." It was the music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...
Shortly after the crackdown, for example, the Australian prime minister gave a televised speech in which he tearfully denounced the regime. Walder says, "Morally, I would have liked [Bush] to have been harsher to the leadership...
Another reason Healy relished CUNY was that his job put him in the thick of things in his beloved hometown. He grew up as the eldest of four children in comfortable circumstances, mostly on Manhattan's Upper East Side. His Australian father had been a wildcat oilman in Texas until the 1929 Crash wiped him out. Later he fetched up as host of a Proctor & Gamble radio show, Captain Tim Healy's Stamp Club, on NBC. He had a short fuse and a robust disregard for social conventions and was a devout Catholic...
Like St. Paul on the road to Damascus, Dr. Bob Brown had a sudden and irrevocable conversion. The Australian general practitioner had traveled for twelve days on the Franklin River, a beautifully remote waterway in western Tasmania, without sign of civilization. Suddenly, near the river's headwaters, he heard the racket of construction equipment -- jackhammers, drilling barges, bulldozers and helicopters. They were about to build a dam that would have destroyed everything Brown had just seen. "I decided on the spot that the preventive medicine I should be involved in was the conservation movement," says Brown, 45. He dropped...