Word: australians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EXCEPT for brief, bi-weekly reprieves to the pubs of Cairns, one hour away, we spent all our times in the verdant forest. One of many tropical rainforest fragments scattered along the northeastern coast of Australia, this area has been extensively cleared for settlement, agriculture and logging. And the Australian wildlife has suffered dramatically, with many species are endangered. Others were probably lost before they were ever known...
...only two years ago that Sotheby's auctioned Irises to Australian plutocrat Alan Bond for a record $53.9 million. The timing was critical. Coming as it did one month after the 1987 stock-market crash, the sale allowed Sotheby's to claim that works of art held their value through financial crises. But last October it was revealed that to enable Bond to make the purchase, Sotheby's had lent him $27 million. "Whatever the arrangement, it helped to raise the inflationary value of that particular picture," asserts Christopher Burge, president of Sotheby's starchy rival, Christie's. Like most...
...corruption cases the authorities have pursued, Cojuangco's wife Margarita was suspected of having taken a $1 million bribe from an Australian businessman last year to help him obtain a gambling-casino license. In the end, the National Bureau of Investigation filed no charges: the probers said the Australian had been duped by a woman who impersonated Cojuangco's wife...
...Australian plan would require backing from all five permanent members of the Security Council: the U.S., USSR, China, Britain and France...
Indonesia's foreign minister, Ali Alatas, arrived in Thailand yesterday in hopes of meeting representatives of Cambodia's Vietnamese-installed government and the three guerrilla groups to hear their views on the Australian plan and on efforts. Indonesia has been the host of several regional peace conferences...