Word: perth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billionaire, was heading for a fall last year when he bought huge blocks of stock, including a 10% stake in Texaco. The crash cut his personal fortune from an estimated $1.1 billion in mid-1987 to $400 million now. Lately, instead of stalking giant corporations on several continents, the Perth-based investor has been making far more modest acquisitions, such as sheep ranches, land for an industrial park and paintings for his private collection...
...Stars showed why they are the defending world champions. They captured the title in Philadelphia in 1986 and will entertain challengers in Perth, in the summer...
...world's most fearsome corporate raiders, was renowned at home as the Great Acquirer. In the U.S., his targets were the giants USX and Texaco. But when he arrived in his gold-toned Rolls-Royce for a meeting of his corporate shareholders last month in Perth, Holmes a Court, 50, had acquired a new identity: the Great Disposer...
...years of neglect. The unemployment rate among Aborigines is 45%, compared with 8% for white Australians. Alcoholism and malnutrition are so rampant that the expected life span for an Aborigine man is 56, compared with 72 for a white Australian. According to Dr. Michael Gracey, a medical researcher in Perth, high levels of infection, unbalanced diets and poor hygiene are all contributing to impaired growth among Aboriginal children. Trapped in a cycle of poverty, some 200 Aborigines rioted in two Outback towns in Queensland and New South Wales this year. Two weeks ago, 40 demonstrators demanding better housing stormed...
Born in South Africa, the son of a prosperous British rancher, Holmes a Court (the family name dates from the Norman Conquest in 1066) studied law in Perth, in western Australia, and decided to settle there. But the young attorney hit his stride once he got into investing. Often underestimated by his opponents, the lanky Holmes a Court has since 1970 won control of transportation, entertainment, publishing, mining and petroleum concerns around the world. Today, with a net worth of some $250 million, he is reputedly Australia's wealthiest citizen. A reclusive investor, Holmes a Court prefers being at home...