Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year 2,000 sentinel pigs were sent from the U.S. and Canada to 505 locations in Haiti to test for the presence of any remaining African swine fever. Less than 1% of them have died...
...leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party, Toronto Lawyer John Turner, 55, became the nation's 17th Prime Minister last week, succeeding the retiring Pierre Trudeau, 64. Early Saturday morning, Trudeau drove from his official residence in Ottawa to Government House, where he offered his resignation. Scarcely half an hour later, Turner and his new 28-member Cabinet arrived to be sworn into office by Governor General Jeanne Sauve...
...after inflation. If that commitment, which was made to President Carter in 1978, was not met, the NATO allies risked a reduction in the 326,414 U.S. troops defending Western Europe. A Pentagon report released last week concluded that, of the 16 NATO countries, only the U.S., Canada and Luxembourg had consistently met the 3% goal since 1980. NATO's conventional forces, Nunn argued, currently serve as "little more than a delayed trip wire for early resort to nuclear escalation," because they could do little to halt a Soviet invasion without tactical nuclear weapons...
...firms last spring, the only offer came from the company's employees, who already own 15% of the road. But last week 14 bidders stepped forward to offer to buy the giant carrier, which hauls freight over 14,200 miles of route in the U.S. and Canada...
...honest," says Bombeck (for it is indeed she, the syndicated star humorist of 900 papers in the U.S. and Canada, and the baggy-toreador-pants clown of ABC'S Good Morning America), "when I started, I thought I was squirrelly. I thought it was just me. After the first columns, everyone on the block confessed it was them too." Those early columns, written in Centerville, Ohio, back in the early '60s, were not quite Corinthian, but they sure were Ermaic. Their message was that housework, if it is done right, can kill you. It was that the women...