Word: canadas
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...decade ago, the adjectives most often used to describe Quebec were angry, sullen or depressed. Now writers seeking to characterize Canada's French- speaking province are more likely to use such words as vibrant, self- assured and confident. With good reason. Back in the 1970s, Quebec was a troubled and troubling region, riven by internal frictions, feuding with Ottawa's federal government and openly threatening to secede from the country. Political turmoil was aggravated by economic crisis, as nationalism among the 80% of Quebecers whose first language is French drove out many English- speaking businesses and helped boost the unemployment...
...left the U.S. last Saturday and flew back to Rome after a one-day visit to northern Canada, the Pope could count both achievements and disappointments. The crowds, as always, had been moved, almost visibly uplifted, by his appearances. Still, the numbers along his motorcade routes were often surprisingly small, thinned perhaps by fears of the crush and heavy security, or the it's-on-TV-anyway mentality; even on his visit to Detroit, only 30,000 turned out in the largely Polish community of Hamtramck. The Pontiff had made special contact for the first time with varied groups...
...Washington Post has detected a feeling in Canada that Sprinter Ben Johnson's recent world-record triumph over Carl Lewis in the 100-meter dash ran deeper than a foot race. Some Canadians see national reflections in the downtrodden stammerer Johnson and the American peacock he dusted at the World Games in Rome. "Lewis was pretty and polished in his U.S. national colors," reported the Toronto Globe and Mail. "Johnson was plainly attired in his baggy suit." Anyway, the World's Fastest Human is now a Jamaican Canadian...
...Senate minority leader and Aquino's chief rival on the right, has the tacit support of Honasan and his renegades. Property owners who oppose Aquino's land-reform proposals are said to be aligning themselves with the rebels. Vice President Laurel, says David Wurfel, a Philippines expert at Canada's University of Windsor, "appears to be running for election by the military. He wants to pose himself as the civilian protector of a military regime...
...writing as in real estate, the operating word is location. Readers like to travel, to escape to a setting, preferably hot, sticky and fatally glamorous. Certain television producers understand this instinctively, which is why Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas do not star in a show called Toronto Vice. Canada's rising cosmopolis may suggest a bright promise of public responsibility and efficiency, but it is Miami whose hard-edged pastels define the pitiless sensuality...