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...object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate, cattle, rental cars and aircraft. He owns a small publishing house and a large kiwifruit orchard. He is nothing if not flexible in his dealings: Saddam paid for some of his weapons with oil, which Cardoen sold on the spot market...
...paintings and find the artist (played by director Martin Scorsese) indifferent to death, obsessed with capturing nature's true spirit. In one of Kurosawa's most magically told tales, a child is forced to confront his hidden feelings about his family's carelessness in cutting down a peach orchard. It prefigures two later dreams (rather conventionally apocalyptic, alas), about an atomic accident and about postnuclear life, in which the human family heedlessly destroys its entire world...
...lived in tents in an old fruit orchard, nearly surrounded by the school's own plot of rainforest and next to a national park. There was one building on the site, with a kitchen, and that was where the professors (from nearby James Cook University) lived. A tarped-off area next to it, filled with rickety green tables, served as our study area...
...fully expect we will break the [1986] record by graduation," Orchard said yesterday. "Class spirit really starts to build as graduation gets closer. Fundraising goes though the roof...
Students usually earmark about 75 to 80 percent of money donated to the class gift for scholarships, said Orchard. The remainder passes into the "current-use fund" to help pay for maintenance of museums, libraries, athletic facilities, and faculty salaries...