Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulled further apart in the only event that seems to matter: the international tug o' war. Munich in 1972 was a reprise of the Holocaust. Two dozen African nations, one full ring off the Olympic charm bracelet of continents, disengaged from Montreal in 1976 rather than associate with New Zealand, whose rugby team had scrummed in apartheid-infested South Africa. The U.S. and 35 sympathizers boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With Americans currently enraged at the U.S.S.R. for shooting down a Korean airliner last month, and many U.S. arenas slamming their doors...
...Zealand Prime Minister Robert D. Muldoon yesterday told a crowd of 75 at the Kennedy School that a new economic order needs to be established before the international monetary system collapses...
...Organization planned to duplicate this effort. Actually, relatively few countries have facilities to make the vaccine; only a few areas in the world have a serious polio problem, for clinical polio is a disease that goes with high standards of hygiene and sanitation. Highest recent incidence abroad: Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia. The six firms making the vaccine are selling it at cost to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, but will otherwise sell for normal profit, an average $1.50 per shot...
...show, where he discovered that a company in Britain had built commercially successful America's Cup minireplicas. Says he: "This thing was going like brushfire in Europe, so I decided to get into it." Seay estimates that about 500 Illusions have been sold worldwide, including South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. About 15 mini-12 skippers met for a regatta last month at Cowes, England...
...problematic, because it is difficult to elicit funds for a cause whose effectiveness cannot be documented, Carstens says. Nonetheless, the IDAF raises millions of dollars a year that make their way to South Africa. But of the 10 national committees--in England, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, New Zealand, India and the U.S.--the American branch contributes the smallest amount, last year about...