Word: holidaying
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...Myers' hobby farm. On a sunny morning, the lead smelters of Port Pirie shimmer on the horizon to the south like an outback Venice, while to the north, the Flinders Ranges begin their majestic roll. They were partly what brought Sydney-born Myers, 64, to the area on holiday in 1966, and his love affair with the landscape has continued ever since. "Change color every hour," he says...
...pastoral civilization. That he is doing his job is clear from the statistics: lamb survival rates are 85% inside the fence; 60% outside it. And there's no doubt which side he's on. Brought up on a farm in Victoria's Western District, Pekin took off on holiday in 1990 "and never went back." A hired hand on stations from Cameron Corner to the Pilbara, the dogger has fallen in love with the lure of long distance. "Oh, it's beautiful," he says. "When I camp out at night the skies are clear." One senses he is happiest when...
...where she's in her last year studying to become a health and physical education teacher. But the prospect of working full-time holds no appeal for her, while being placed out west somewhere and not being able to surf is out of the question. She won't even holiday away from the coast. "People keep calling me a dreamer," she says. "It's, 'What kind of house do you want to live in when you're older?' 'Are you going to have kids?'-all these real-life questions. I'm still trying to get this responsibility thing...
...service is trying to strike fear into contractors that serve as a buffer between workers and large companies. In April, the immigration service brought indictments against two temporary-labor companies in Canton, Ohio, a home-builder in Kentucky, and two other Kentucky companies, one of which supplied workers to Holiday Inn and other hotels...
...their medieval trappings, these two sources of Islamic fervor now vying for possession of the newly transmuted Arab-Israeli dispute confirm the Bush Administration's view that, after a holiday from history in the 1990s, the global ideological struggles of the 20th century have been rejoined with a change only in the cast. In place of the ersatz Western religions of fascism and communism, radical Islam, bastard child of a real and great religion, has arisen. Led by two rival Vaticans, one in Tehran and the other cavebound on the Afghan-Pakistani border, it raises the banner of a militant...