Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dresses she wants." Ivana was raised in Czechoslovakia, the child of an electrical engineer, and she liked to engage in ski races. "Sports gave me the competitiveness and discipline that have been important for my success," she says. After graduating from Charles University in Prague, she moved to Canada and became a model...
Perhaps the most damning indictment of the Soviet economy was published late last month by economist Alexander Zaychenko in the monthly journal of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies. He charged that Soviet food products, housing, health care and consumer goods are not only poor in quality but also among the most expensive in the world in terms of the labor needed to produce them. As for the Soviet diet, which contains 28 lbs. of meat annually, according to official figures, Zaychenko scoffed that 10 lbs. of that is actually lard and bone, and calculated that the average Soviet...
...cattlemen with a surplus of liver, sweetbreads and other specialty meats that are popular in Europe. But the American beef industry can probably make up for the lost European business elsewhere, since U.S. producers export more than $1 billion worth of beef every year to Asia, Mexico and Canada, or ten times the value of the meat shipped...
...January of 1978, the Soviet spy satellite Cosmos 954 dropped out of orbit and fell to earth. It did not completely disintegrate in the atmosphere. Instead, debris from the satellite fell across almost 40,000 square miles of northwest Canada. Metal from the sky is frightening enough, but this metal was radioactive...
Some forecasters have suggested that the impact of global warming will not be uniformly bad around the world. After all, Canada would not complain if the productive corn-growing lands of the U.S. Midwest shifted north across the | border, and the Soviet Union might welcome a warmer, more hospitable Siberia. But while the broad outlines of a hotter world are easy to draw, more specific projections are riddled with uncertainty, since the regional weather patterns that would prevail are largely unpredictable. If Canada becomes much dryer than it is now, for example, higher temperatures will not help much...