Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skill in English could lead to something the U.S. has so far managed to avoid: the rise of a nation-within-a-nation, the growth of the sort of linguistic or "communal" factionalism that has long haunted countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Belgium and most recently Canada...
...about the LDCS' "minuscule" exports of such products, McNamara said, the richer countries would be wise to help the LDCS continue to earn the foreign currency that they need to buy the developed countries' goods. Citing a list of new import barriers erected by the U.S., Britain, Canada, France and other manufacturing nations against Third World shoes, textiles, TV sets and other products, McNamara warned that "excessive protectionism is not only unfair. It is self-defeating...
With the score 5-2, the Royals went back to work. After Porter flied out, Pete LaCock rattled a double off the wall in right. Clint Hurdle, the man who forced John Mayberry to learn the words to "O Canada," then slammed a belt-high fastball to right field. Reggie Jackson went back to the wall, jumped...and came down with nothing. Hurdle ended up with a triple, and after a crash-bang play at the plate for the second out, Patek hit Tidrow's final pitch out of the park...
...answer questions on Rhodesia, believes that Christian justice demands the "liberation" of oppressed peoples, a program that includes an end to white minority governments. And in that process, violence may be necessary. The Rhodesian grant, in fact, is popular among most Third World churches, and was approved by Canada's Anglican Primate E.W. Scott and other officers. The overall antiracist grants program survived unscathed at the 1975 W.C.C. Assembly in Nairobi, attended by delegates from all World Council member churches, where a pointed floor proposal to deny church money to violent organizations was voted down...
...whipped around and pointed to bar graphs comparing Canada's reduced health costs to the ever-increasing rates of the U.S. In 1963, 4.3 per cent of the federal budget was spent on health care. Today it has risen to 12.7 per cent. In 1983 it will be 13.3 per cent and a "whopping" 9.7 per cent of the Gross National Product (GNP). Canada, on the other hand, managed to contain its expenditures on health care from 6.8 per cent of the GNP when their national health insurance plan was passed in 1968 to 7 per cent in 1978. Today...