Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight months after a diagnosis in January 1984 revealed that he had AIDS, Todd Shuttleworth was fired from his job as a budget analyst for Florida's Broward County. "We just couldn't take the chance of anything happening to employees or to anyone visiting the office," explains John Canada, budget and management policy director for the county. Many AIDS victims who feel wronged hesitate to embark on legal battles that they may not live to see completed. Not Shuttleworth. He brought a $15 million lawsuit against the county, and has continued to press it while struggling through AIDS-related...
...popularity. While bright, articulate liberals continue to write books that chronicle every blunder Reagan has ever made, the President remains untarnished. No one really cares that Reagan thinks that trees are the greatest cause of pollution or that he forgot that Pierre Trudeau was the prime minister of Canada. In fact, it could be argued that Reagan's image as a bumbling old geezer actually strengthens his popularity. It reinforces his image as a common man, a man of the people...
...American Rhodes Scholars have not been announced yet, but will be after interviews this weekend. The selection process in Canada started a few weeks before...
...refuse to sell any products to South African customers. Word of Kodak's withdrawal came one day after a three-week strike ended at a GM plant that is being sold to local managers and on the same day that Hong Kong announced new sanctions. At week's end Canada-based Bata, a major shoe manufacturer, said it would sell its South African operations to foreign investors...
...hours after the announcement, the records were surrendered to police by a lawyer representing Andreas J. Hackner, a junior tax assessor for Revenue Canada, who was promptly suspended and may face theft charges. Hackner reportedly borrowed the files to start a business in tracking down dormant bank accounts...