Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Residents of New Zealand's largest city are living a '70s post-apocalypse movie plot line, with no electricity for the past five days. Auckland's office towers and stores are dark and empty, except for police patrolling against looters, after all four power cables to the city center failed last Friday. Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the outage, which has cost businesses tens of millions of dollars. Health officials are warning against the consumption of food that has begun to rot in the city's refrigerators, and with full power...
...done a lot for nations having difficulty moving into an era of openness and democracy, but it is time for the U.S. to drop its Big Brother routine and assume the role of passive bystander. Only time will mend the Middle Eastern autocracy. DANIEL FURNER Wellington, New Zealand...
...supplier. Mark Fawcett, Canada's dominant giant-slalom racer, who draws a good portion of his income from Fila, must suspend that contract to advertise Nike, official sponsor of the Canadian team. At one point, Fawcett was so frustrated by the rule that he tried to join the New Zealand team. In the end, he decided to go Canadian anyway...
...United States had to settle for joint fifth place ? with Switzerland, no less ? in the rankings of trade, tax, banking policy and amount of government intervention in the economy. Hong Kong, Singapore, Bahrain and even New Zealand were judged more monetarily "free" ? and as the survey authors remind us, "countries that have the most economic freedom also have higher rates of economic growth and are more prosperous." Alright, already...
...that reason, I find bizarre the criticism directed at the Promise Keepers by some elements of the feminist movement. I suspect its paranoid diatribe has more to do with bitterness and failure to recognize the enrichment of the lives of ordinary women, children and men. TONY KAMPKES Christchurch, New Zealand...