Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor management of plants under construction. Industry analysts agree that all too many nuclear projects have been badly conceived, poorly designed and inadequately controlled. Each U.S. nuclear plant is in effect a custom-made affair. The industry has failed to follow the lead of such countries as France and Canada, which have adopted standardized reactor designs. Such blueprints would allow modifications made on one plant to be copied at others in the series. Each American plant must now be checked out individually, and the lessons learned from operating one are difficult to apply to others. The construction of facilities, which...
...fruitless search for the holder of the lucky ticket had become a national obsession. Last week, nine days after the winning six numbers in Canada's interprovincial lottery were announced, the country's jackpot fever finally broke as Stuart Kelly, 57, and his wife Lillian, 54, stepped forward in Toronto to claim the largest lottery prize ever won in North America, a tax-free check for $13,890,588.80 (or more than $11 million U.S.). The Kellys had spent the previous week doing "a lot of sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what...
...lottery payoff was the largest for a single ticket yet recorded in the U.S. or Canada. To play Lotto 6/49, ticket buyers chose six numbers between 1 and 49. The prize money mounted as each drawing failed to produce a winning number. The fever touched nearly everyone. Winnipeg Art Dealer Alan de Boer seemed to say it all when, finding himself in a lottery line, he admitted, "This is unbelievable. It is against my nature...
Most people were given the chance to take the tickets back to Canada, but some of them were destroyed after being seized...
Designed for the National Arts Center of Canada in 1982, the production stars Mezzo Marilyn Home in one of her patented sword-and-breastplate roles. It is scenically spectacular, full of the kind of deus ex machina theatricality that so delighted baroque audiences: dragon-drawn chariots fly through the air belching smoke, monsters writhe, and looming castles collapse in a heap of rubble. Bright and vivid, Rinaldo is a bauble for the eye; as sung by an imposing cast that includes Bass Samuel Ramey and Soprano Benita Valente, it is a treat for the ear. But whether it serves Handel...