Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest province. Said Trudeau in his Dominion Day address: "The sort of bickering which has too often been characteristic of Canadian life is giving way to a renewed willingness to open our hearts and minds to each other...
...Government to bestow titles of nobility, and Americans have always cultivated a certain national breeziness. Democracy and mobility have conspired with a traveling salesman's protocol ("Call me Joe-here's what I've got!") to efface even the "Mr." from the way that Americans address one another. All the same, the Carters' interminable "Jimmying" in a White House so recently thought of as Imperial has turned informality into standard policy...
...trespasser. The French still maintain fairly rigorous distinctions between tu (for animals, children up to 15, family members, close friends, lovers and, in some cases, professional colleagues) and vous (for everyone else). The same rules apply for first names. Many cultures have developed wonder fully elaborate forms of address to delineate relationships, to mark their progress. Russians, for example, can open successive doors of intimacy through a marvelously tender procession of diminutives: Ivan Ivanovich, Ivan Ivan'ich, Ivan, Vanya, Vanyushka, Vanyushenka...
...person's address does not match the address on the registration form, it is required by law to send the voter a "drop notice." Unless the voter returns the notice by a certain date, he is removed from the city's registration list...
...White House had seen enough and sprang into action. Carter, who had earlier put his chief political fixer, Hamilton Jordan, in charge of Jewish issues, invited key Senators to breakfast to discuss the Middle East. Vice President Walter Mondale was sent to San Francisco to deliver a foreign policy address on the Middle East, stressing the fact that Israel would not be asked to withdraw from its occupied territories until it was assured of "real peace." The President spent 40 minutes with visiting Israeli Rabbi Shlomo Goren. Carter told Goren that he did not expect Israel to return completely...