Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect cross-ice pass from teammate Mario Tremblay and without hesitation slipped the puck between the pads of Bruin goalie Gilles Gilbert. The shot gave Montreal a 5-4 come-from-behind win and the sudden-death semifinals-winning goal that the 17,453 in attendance and most of Canada had been praying...
...gears up. Canadians, often offended by his intellectual arrogance, were surprised when he singlehandedly turned around the country's mood from one of cynicism to one of confidence. The opposition and Progressive Conservative Party leader at the time was Robert Stanfield, a long-time member of Parliament from Eastern Canada. Stanfield's strategy rested upon a poorly-conceived, loosely-defined economic platform designed to control inflation. Stanfield said he planned to institute wage and price controls--but he didn't explain how he would implement them or how they would work. Trudeau hammered at Stanfield's equivocal policy, made leadership...
...hold down prices. That is something that the companies once managed with ease, but now no longer have much power to accomplish. Yet if they tried, they would be harming their own interests. The Sisters hold concessions in non-OPEC areas, like the British and Norwegian North Sea and Canada. Every time the cartel jabs up the price, up goes the value of the companies' holdings as well...
...France $11,.100,.000,000 Italy $8,000,000,000 Spain $4,400,000,000 United Kingdom $4,200,000,000 Brazil $4,100,000,000 Netherlands $2,500,000,000 Sweden $2,500,000,000 Belgium/Luxembourg $2,500,000,000 India $1,500,000,000 Canada $1,200,000,000 Australia...
Pierre Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, asked if he had read estranged Wife Margaret's lurid autobiography: "You want to know the nature of my thoughts? You won't get them...