Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Albert Lager '84, ranked in the top 20 in Canada, was the team's top cross-country skier last year, but left the ski team this year to devote himself to crew. "I liked going away every weekend, and I miss the skiing," he says...
...experts who appreciated the deficiencies of this year's hockey team, it must not have come as a total surprise that Canada upset the squad and Czechoslovakia trounced them. They were even unable to muster a victory over Norway...
...number above 50 digits. They calculated that it would take the fastest computer, performing as many as a billion divisions a second, more than 100 million years to finish the task. Then, in the fall of 1982, a chance encounter closed the gap. During a scientific conference in Winnipeg, Canada, Gustavus Simmons, head of Sandia's applied-math department, was mulling the factoring problem over a few beers with another mathematician and an engineer from Cray Research, makers of the world's fastest computer. The engineer, Tony Warnock, pointed out that the internal workings of the Cray were...
National chains are the American way of marketing. Products from hamburgers and mufflers to computers and ice cream are sold in look-alike outlets from Hawaii to Maine. Until recently, one area of business was restrained from going this route: banking. While Canada has just eleven banks and Britain has about 300, the U.S. has some 15,000. Nebraska alone has 283 different banks, Oklahoma 256 and Colorado 126. Says Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citicorp: "When the pioneers got off the wagon train going west, they set up a general store, a saloon and a bank...
...from six nations. The Americans question the amateur status of four Canadians, who in turn are complaining retroactively about two of the most prominent U.S. players from 1980: Mike Eruzione and Ken Morrow. All of this high-sticking will be settled before the opening ceremonies, because the U.S. and Canada cannot wait that long to have at each other. They play the night before. Around the perimeter of the village, distant sentries are stationed, some sinking unobtrusively into the muck. Machine-gun-toting guards, so familiar now at world occasions, are omnipresent here, along with airport-style X-ray equipment...