Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refusal to abandon the English system of measurement in favor of the metric system is shortsighted. Our stubbornly clinging to feet and pounds has a negative effect on everything from tourism to machine-tool exports. Britain, Canada and Australia have changed successfully. Are Americans any less intelligent or adaptable...
...visitors were not in Charlesville for sight-seeing. Rounded up by police, the 173 men and an 18-year-old woman were Sikhs, members of a minority religious group in India. They were Canada's latest boat people, who arrived seeking to take advantage of the country's liberal refugee laws. Last August two lifeboats filled with 155 Tamils from Sri Lanka were found floating off Newfoundland, having paid for passage from West Germany...
Officials wavered over what to do with the immigrants, who had fled India alleging that the majority Hindus were discriminating against the Sikhs. Many Canadians had been outraged when the Tamils were allowed to remain and applauded a promise by Canada's Conservative government to pass legislation tightening admission requirements for refugees. The bill, however, has not been enacted, and last week's arrivals will be interviewed individually to determine if they are entitled to stay. Because Canadian law allows anyone who claims refugee status to live in the country until all appeals have been exhausted, Janice Hines' early-morning...
...suppliers. Office chairs? IKEA has 14 designs. Lamps? There are versions that stand and hang and squat, each labeled in English, Danish, German, French and Swedish. The displays include kitchen tables from Rumania, nightstands from Italy, bookshelves from West Germany, desks from Yugoslavia and mattresses (no assembly needed) from Canada...
...first industry angels were Eugene Harvey and Seymour Flics, then concert promoters, now Whitney's zealous managers and jealous protectors. In 1981 the team devised a game plan: they would develop acting and modeling as adjuncts to the music. Soon Whitney was doing a Canada Dry commercial and TV's Silver Spoons and Gimme a Break. She had already been cutting classes at her private Catholic girls' school to model for the Click agency. She later switched to Wilhelmina and appeared in Glamour and Vogue. Meanwhile she was sharing club dates with Cissy. Finally, at 18, she was ready...