Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing global consolidation in the communications business and by the many foreign acquisitions of American companies. In recent years, West Germany's Bertelsmann bought RCA Records and the Doubleday and Bantam Books publishing houses; Britain's Robert Maxwell took over Macmillan publishers; Japan's Sony acquired CBS Records; and Australian-born Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen) accumulated newspapers, magazines, a movie studio and a TV network. Said Time's Munro: "We see Maxwell, Murdoch, Bertelsmann and Sony coming into our market and raising hell, and we see this ((merger)) as an opportunity for an American company to get competitive...
Japanese investors are buying cattle operations in Australia as well. While Japanese consumers generally consider American grain-fed beef to be the tastiest import, production is less costly Down Under because Australian cattle are fed more grass. Japanese trading houses have poured $132 million into Australian beef operations, more than twice their U.S. investment so far. That trend has prompted mixed feelings. Last month Australian beef producers called for government restrictions on further Japanese investment, but labor unions, whose members have benefited from increased employment, rose to defend...
...Hirohito as the "biggest war criminal on earth." Said Bruce Ruxton, Victorian president of the Returned Services League: "Going to his funeral would be like going to the funeral of the devil." Prime Minister Bob Hawke skirted a decision by acceding to protocol, which does not usually require the Australian head of government to attend the funeral of a head of state...
...nation's second-class citizens. Between 1788 and 1900, their numbers dropped from 300,000 to 93,000. Since then, the Aboriginal population has grown back to 230,000, or 1.3% of Australia's 16 million people. About 11% have never gone to school (vs. 1% of Australian whites), and 30% are unemployed (vs. 7% of whites). The life expectancy of Aborigines is 18 years less than that of whites. Significantly, Aborigines gained the right to vote only 21 years...
...Hochstein, who designed the layouts for the entire package, faced a difficult problem: how to create a strikingly original cover image. Their solution was to approach Christo, the famed Bulgarian-born environmental sculptor. In earlier works Christo had draped in plastic large sections of the earth -- a stretch of Australian coast, a canyon in Colorado -- but never the whole planet. This time Christo bundled a 16-in. globe in polyethylene and rag rope and drove more than 350 miles up and down New York's Long Island in search of the perfect combination of light...