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Transworld International, which represented the Ivy League, is a recognized leader in the sports television industry. It represented the city of Calgary, Alberta in negotiations for rights to broadcast the 1968 Winter Olympics. The $309 million contract with ABC was the largest television sports contract ever signed. Transworld is currently representing Seoul, South Korea, which will host the 1968 Summer Olympics in similar negotiations...
...level, the complaints--often raised to state-of-the-art whining as in Graves' characterization of "one crisis after another being a president without authority"--reflect the implicit ambivalence of the presidents themselves. Alberta Arthurs, former president of Chatham college, correctly observes. "We tend to teach our best students to admire individualism rather than the institution. I don't think that's a bad thing, but that makes thing tough for college presidents...
...190th Calgary, Alberta native had one goal and seven assists this year as the 10-14-3 Crimson marched to the ECAC Ivy Division title and a tie for the Ivy League championship...
...culturalism, bilingualism, Canadianism--Trudeau programs from which the country has only begun to recover. Though linguistic tolerance improved, it came only at a grave price: the total alienation of Western Canada. It is not surprising that Trudeau suffered the humiliation of egg peltings and rock-throwings on visits to Alberta or British Columbia; west of Ontario, Trudeau's party has only one representative in Parliament, and still less popular support. Nationally, and for over two years, Trudeau has trailed in the polls...
...rising young star when Gorbachev led a parliamentary delegation to Ottawa in May 1983. A balding man of medium height with a birthmark on his forehead that is airbrushed out of official portraits, Gorbachev exudes confidence, authority and a willingness to learn. As he traveled to Ontario and Alberta visiting large family-owned farms and agricultural processing plants, Gorbachev repeatedly asked questions about Western farming techniques...