Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years matches the progress of California wines: many Aussie winemakers have studied their craft at the University of California at Davis, America's ranking school of oenology. In fact Michael Mullins, the chairman of the viticulture department at Davis, is Australian. Says he of the Californians and his countrymen: "I think they see each other as potential competitors. There are a fair amount of trade secrets, but there's an awful lot of sharing in chemical engineering, yeast biochemistry and other fields, so that there is continual improvement...
...yesterday's speech, he blasted "loosening" of social morals and the spread of egoism. Kadar said hard times were ahead and asked his countrymen to understand that recently imposed austerity measures were necessary...
Like a growing number of his countrymen, Duarte blames the Sandinistas' prefabricated revolutionary socialism for many of Nicaragua's economic woes. He turns to baseball, a game made popular in Nicaragua by U.S. Marines in the early part of the century, to explain what he feels needs to happen. "What do you do when a pitcher is getting hit out of the ball park?" he asks. "You change him and try someone with a fresh...
...that surrounds the 800-acre Arraijan Tank Farm. For two hours, the Marines fired small arms and mortars. Miraculously, no one was hurt; the previous night, a smaller firefight had resulted in the accidental fatal shooting of a Marine. Could the U.S. troops have once again mistaken their fellow countrymen for hostile Panamanians? "Unauthorized personnel," insisted the U.S. Southern Command. "Shadows," countered the Panama Defense Forces...
Tibet' s Dalai Lama is a remote, otherworldly God- King, yet he is leading 6 million of his countrymen in a struggle for freedom...