Word: zealander
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...powerful pull of economic gravity. Most CD players, VCRS and electronic goods in use today are made in Asia. According to Sandhu, by the year 2000, Asia's gross national product is expected to match Europe's; this year Hong Kong's gnp per capita will pass New Zealand's. Nine out of the 10 fastest-growing economies last year, including South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, were Asian. Taiwan now has foreign currency reserves equal to more than two-thirds of Australia's $145 billion foreign debt...
...battling through the semifinal rounds off San Diego this week, the 28th America's Cup competition is not just a matter of money. It is a spiritual quest that combines courage and seamanship with hubris and high technology. Yet deep pockets seem to be the common denominator. New Zealand challenger Sir Michael Fay has spent $65 million, Italian industrialist Raul Gardini at least $100 million. On the American-defender side, energy mogul Bill Koch has shelled out at least $60 million. Dennis Conner, the cup's three-time champion, is the poor cousin with a mere $15 million...
...high- tech America 3 earlier this month, Conner's Stars & Stripes was trailing Koch's craft 4 to 2 in a best-of-13 final at the end of last week. In the challenger series, to decide which foreign entry will face the Americans on May 9, the New Zealand enjoyed a 4-to-1 lead over Italy's Il Moro di Venezia (pictured above with the red spinnaker in an early round against the Kiwis...
...Arab ruin into which a fake nomadic hovel has been inserted, is like a second-rate SITE rip-off -- except that SITE actually designed it. The South Pacific pavilion is a compound of grass huts (or was -- it burned down last week, but is to be rebuilt promptly). New Zealand's conventional steel-and- glass facade gives way at one end to a rugged Pacific promontory, complete with recorded ocean noises, artificial stones and plastic seabirds...
...repercussion that will embarrass the government," observes Marcio Santilli, executive secretary of the Nucleus for Indigenous Rights in Brasilia. U.S. Senator Albert Gore this month introduced a congressional resolution that calls on the U.S. government to apply pressure on Malaysia to uphold the human rights of indigenous peoples. New Zealand has gone further: it has said it will stop importing tropical woods from places where there is uncontrolled logging...