Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the longtime strongman is calling the shots and is not in retirement. The belief that Maung Maung's tenure is simply an extension of Ne Win's is feeding the opposition fury. "The people are not going to stop until the entire government is thrown out," said an Australian businessman after visiting Rangoon. "The crowds feel they can't lose...
...anachronisms, heavier on rhetoric and glitz than substance, keyed more to the TV audience than to give-and-take among the delegates. "It's more a prime-time TV show than a convention," said John Wiseman of Network Ten Australia about the event in New Orleans. "Compared with Australian party conventions, which involve wheeling and dealing and political disputes, I find these conventions lacking in hard politics...
...magazines and a daily racing-tip sheet be worth billions of dollars? Maybe so, if the buyer is Keith Rupert Murdoch. Last week the Australian-born press baron agreed to buy Triangle Publications, which puts out TV Guide (circ. 17.1 million), the Daily Racing Form (123,000) and Seventeen (1.9 million), from Walter Annenberg, the California businessman and philanthropist, for $3 billion. While TV Guide may be the undisputed king of television listings and boast the largest circulation of any U.S. magazine, media experts concur that Murdoch is paying a premium price that will add to his already considerable debt...
...films and television. Murdoch controls more than 60% of metropolitan newspaper circulation in Australia and 36% of the national distribution in Britain. Although he built his company primarily on racy tabloids and conservative politics, Murdoch also publishes the venerable Times and Sunday Times in London and the well-respected Australian, and he is part owner of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. While he has sold the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, he still owns the Boston Herald and the San Antonio Express-News. He has interests in ten book publishers, including Glasgow's William...
Despite such resistance, the more liberal Anglican branches are now determined to go beyond women priests and consecrate women as bishops. The opposition to this step is formidable: 40% of the conference voted in favor of an Australian's motion to stall elections of women bishops. Nonetheless, facing up to the inevitable, the meeting decided to let each branch do as it pleases and then directed Runcie to appoint a commission to deal with the resulting disputes...