Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present government's budget. Further, he argues, some of it can be paid for by cracking down on corruption, cutting defense spending and collecting taxes more efficiently. "The kind of South Africa we can build," he says with a smile, "is one where parents in Australia and New Zealand would have to hold their children back from emigrating here...
After attending the Academy Awards and taking a side trip to the Picasso exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Paquin returned home to New Zealand, where she's learning that even though you've just won an Oscar, it doesn't necessarily mean you'll spend your time lounging by the pool, reading the showbiz trades and chatting to Jack Nicholson on the cellular phone. No, this week Paquin goes back to school...
...categories, CAA represents three (Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Jane Campion), ICM two (Holly Hunter and Tommy Lee Jones), and the little-known Harold Greene Agency one (Schindler's List screenwriter Steven Zaillian). Eleven-year-old Anna Paquin is represented by the even-less-known Double Happy agency of New Zealand. The William Morris Agency was shut...
...scarce off Cape Cod that a large part of America's oldest fishing area is now off limits. Populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna of breeding age have dropped 90% since 1975, and Pacific stocks are starting to fall as well. Orange roughy from the waters off New Zealand, redfish from the Caribbean, salmon off the American Northwest, Atlantic swordfish, Pacific perch -- all are vanishing...
Trying to forge a global treaty will be especially daunting. Countries with desirable fish off their coasts, including Canada, New Zealand, Argentina and Iceland, point fingers at so-called distant nations, such as Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the European Union countries, for taking too many fish just outside the 200-mile limit. The distant nations, in turn, blame coastal states for poor management inside the boundaries...