Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trained as a teacher, Yakovlev became a professional party worker following combat duty in World War II. After becoming acting head of the party's propaganda department in 1973, he was on the losing side of an obscure ideological dispute. As punishment, he spent ten years as Ambassador to Canada...
...among nonreaders. In a recent survey of French viewers, 38% said Pivot was their favorite TV personality. (His closest competition: a German shepherd named Junior who is featured on a hit show about pets.) Nor is his popularity an exclusively French phenomenon. Apostrophes is also seen in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, French-speaking Africa, Poland and even on a cable channel in Manhattan...
After several minutes, we came to three sound conclusions. First, the league is probably here to stay because it can only be seen on cable. Second, the Canadian Football League (which also plays a summer season) is in Canada. Third, it will take at least a year to understand Arena football...
...Harvard men's heavyweight crew failed to reach the finals of the 148th Henley Regatta-on-Thames Saturday, falling to the Ridley Boat Club from Canada by three-quarters of a length in the first round of the Grand Challenge Cup for eights...
...national charter renounces war. Portugal's forbids private ownership of television stations. Peru reprints its charter in the Lima telephone directory, filling ten pages of fine print. Yet beneath such diversity, each document can trace its rights and freedoms to U.S. soil. Says Joseph Magnet, a law professor at Canada's University of Ottawa: "America has been and remains the great constitutional laboratory for the entire world...