Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been about families: War of the Roses (1985), a knock-down, drag-out marital combat, and Eleemosynary (1986), a dark comedy about how parents live through their children. Walk, by contrast, features provocative political notions: that deadly arsenals are essential to being a superpower ("Without nuclear weapons, America is Canada, only with more people") and that the prospect of Armageddon is titillating to much of mankind ("The most exciting thing in the world is to know we can destroy the world. Like that...
Earlier in the week the superpowers tested weapons from their existing arsenals in wastelands on opposite sides of the world. High above Canada's Northwest Territories, an American B-52 launched a cigar-shaped cruise missile over the frozen Beaufort Sea. After flying at 500 m.p.h. and occasionally skimming as low as several hundred feet, the weapon touched down smoothly in Alberta four hours after launch. It was the first successful cruise test in a year...
...demonstrate it can ! effectively lead the country, run the government or keep its promises to curb the kind of corruption that helped finish off the Liberals. Mulroney, 47, has surrounded himself with friends chosen for loyalty rather than expertise. He has never developed or articulated a national agenda for Canada or shown himself to have a tight grip on the reins of government. Although Canada's growth rate of 3.3% for the past two years is second only to that of Japan, the government has problems. Time after time, major decisions, like a highly publicized promise to restructure Canada...
...Toronto suggests there is ample reason for concern. Mulroney's Conservatives now enjoy the backing of only 23% of Canadian voters, compared with a 50% favorable rating just before the September 1984 election. If an election were to be held now, the Liberals, with 42% support, would form Canada's next government, and the New Democrats, with 33%, would become the opposition. Mulroney, who is expected to conduct a second shuffle of his Cabinet and a purge of some of his closest aides within the next few weeks, may yet be able to stop the slide and turn the Tories...
...approval is virtually certain. The move would further fuel a controversy that has raged in the church since the campaign for women priests began gathering strength twelve years ago. Seven of the 28 provinces that form the 70 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion, including churches in the U.S. and Canada, have opened the ranks of the priesthood to women, but the parent church has so far been reluctant to take that step...