Word: zealander
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...allow abortions under conditions that range from saving the mother's life to economic hardship. In the past 15 years, 17 countries (including Canada, India, Norway and Great Britain) have liberalized their abortion laws; in the same period, seven nations (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Iran, Israel and New Zealand) have adopted tougher legislation...
...spectator. The British cricketer expelled from Guyana, Robin Jackman, was so treated because he is married to a South African and spends the whiter in that country. Fearing boycotts, Australia has even refused the South African Springbok rugby team permission to land there on its way to New Zealand this summer...
...emergence of a multilateral defense arrangement. Singapore's Rajaratnam agrees: "Since the U.S. cannot meet the threat on its own, what is needed in Asia is a collective defense system including the U.S., the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines), Australia, New Zealand and Canada, with South Korea and China as components. The Japanese, too, must contribute their share to the security of this area. They have got to get away from their old policy of saying, 'We'll make the Toyotas; you provide the defense umbrella.' " Rajaratnam is quick...
...show has been playing for two days in a circus tent at Hale's 5-H Ranch, a drive-through animal park in Cape Girardeau, Mo. It has brought animal fanciers from 43 states, New Zealand, Mexico and Canada. Close to 2,000 head of animals are on hand, including a couple of elephants (the bidding on one goes to $21,000, but there is no sale, because the owner values them at $40,000 apiece). There are four giraffes, axis deer, oryxes, African crowned cranes and elands that were hand-raised and are, says Hale, "as gentle...
...familiarity. Sobriquet is a more ceremonial word for nickname (sort of a nickname's given name), but it is generally used in a formal, titular sense, and not as anything one actually would call someone else. A nickname may be at once demeaning and endearing (see New Zealand's Prime Minister, "Piggy" Muldoon). But a sobriquet keeps its distance. Attila's of for example, were alternately "The Terror of the World" and "The Scourge of God," depending on his be havior. No one called him Hunny...