Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European process can only succeed if it involves all our European countries, and of course the United States and Canada. But we think we should proceed from the realities existing in the world: the existence of both the European Economic Community and [its East Bloc counterpart] Comecon, of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact...
...Oxford University Press advisory council, says, "I've never been associated with a project, I've never even heard of a project, that was so incredibly complicated and that met every deadline." Some of this speed and success can be attributed to the efficient cooperation among firms in Britain, Canada and the U.S., all of whom contributed essential parts to the larger whole. But the principal reason why this edition was prepared so rapidly can be cited in a word that did not appear in the first OED: computerization...
...fruit at airports and docks in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami -- a still life of waste -- and advised consumers not to eat any Chilean fruit, which includes most of the peaches, blueberries, blackberries, melons, green apples, pears and plums on the market this time of year. As Japan and Canada followed the U.S. lead, an additional $4 million worth of fruit en route from Chile was held up, and $15 million more was stockpiled on the docks in Chile. So far, 20,000 Chilean food workers have been fired, and 200,000 more jobs were in jeopardy...
David J. Moews '89, Bjorn M. Poonen '89 and Jeremy A. Kahn '91 placed in the top five, beating more than 2000 other students from 360 colleges in the United States and Canada. Poonen and Moews, along with Constantin S. Teleman '90, pulled Harvard ahead of Princeton and Rice to win the team competition...
...pulled in many directions at once. The peripatetic President delivers several speeches a week, and sometimes several a day, on subjects as diverse as drugs, volunteerism, government service, ethics, education, child care and the minimum wage. On the morning after his Feb. 9 budget address, he flew to Canada. Then he exhausted his staff (though not himself) on a whirlwind five-day tour to Japan, China and South Korea, including formal meetings with two dozen foreign leaders that required extensive preparation and diverted the Administration from the efforts to confirm Tower and to fill other vacant posts...