Word: canadas
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Drabinsky has never shied away from a fight. As a child with polio, he had to fight for his life; he still walks with a limp. In Cineplex's early days, he barely averted bankruptcy when Canada's reigning circuits, Famous Players and Odeon, pressured distributors to withhold first-run films from the fledgling company. But in 1983 Drabinsky, a lawyer who had written a standard reference on Canadian motion-picture law, convinced the courts that Famous and Odeon were engaging in restraint of trade. A year later he bought the Odeon chain, but his battle with Famous still rages...
...arctic blast that swept down from Canada and froze the face of the nation last week made Americans look like motley snowmen. Out they ventured in funny fur hats, layered sweaters, mittens, turned-up collars and ski masks. The luckiest ones spent as much time as possible near the radiator, as little as necessary out of doors...
...than 40 years against the Japanese yen and the West German mark. On New Year's Eve, the dollar fetched only 121 yen, vs. 159 yen a year ago. The plunge was especially unsettling because it came less than a week after the Group of Seven (the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and West Germany) issued a statement saying the dollar had fallen far enough. The central banks of some of these nations have been buying dollars heavily in exchange markets, but currency traders doubt that intervention can keep the greenback stable for long...
...Politburo member, Gorbachev in 1983 headed a Soviet agricultural delegation on a visit to Canada and spent ten days poking around farms, processing plants and supermarkets. At one cattle ranch, he asked to see "some of the workers." The rancher replied that there were none; he ran the spread of several hundred acres with only his family and a handful of day laborers. A Canadian host who speaks Russian heard Gorbachev mutter under his breath, "We are not going to see this ((in the Soviet Union)) for another 50 years." Eugene Whelan, then Minister of Agriculture and Gorbachev's official...
After the U.S. and Canada sign it by Jan. 2, the treaty will almost certainly be approved by Congress. Despite opposition in Ottawa, the Progressive Conservative Party majority in Canada's House of Commons virtually guarantees that the treaty will take effect...