this past week in Oz

[Joanna Sheldon]

...saw Woolworth's (a big supermarket, here) start a price war on milk by
lowering the price of a quart below the cost of putting it on the shelf
(American dairy farmers know what happens next), and Australian
universities plan to give a grade-point-average break to new students who
pay in full before the start of the semester. 

The cost of trying to keep pace with the "global economy"?  This was once a
cool country.

sickened,
Joanna

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