Word: canadas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Canada has an escape. By accident of geography, separation is a real option because the different cultures inhabit different territories. For a country like America, where the different cultures are thoroughly intermixed, there is no such answer. Canada can break up cleanly; the U.S. cannot...
America is proceeding blithely down the path of diversity and ethnic separatism. America's destination, however, is not Canada, which will find some civil way out of its dilemma. America's destination is the Balkans...
Last week, though, the hard data finally arrived. Nielsen Media Research--the folks who do the famous Nielsen TV ratings--unveiled the results of what seems to be the first solid, scientific survey of the Internet, or at least the portion of it that covers the U.S. and Canada. Most earlier surveys relied on figures obtained through questionnaires or by counting the number of Internet host computers and multiplying that by an estimated number of users per host--a fudge factor that is particularly difficult to measure when an Internet host computer can be anything from a single workstation...
...those who had staked their reputations--not to mention their assets--on the assumption that the Internet was a lot bigger than the pessimists said, the news was good. According to Nielsen, approximately 37 million people in the U.S. and Canada have access to the Net--either direct or through a friend, a colleague or a commercial online service like CompuServe, Prodigy or America Online. That's more than the number of TV viewers who tune in to ER each week. Some 24 million people used the Internet during the past three months--a number that represents...
...UNITED NATIONS HAS ACHIEVED innumerable successes throughout its existence. To abandon it in the face of challenge is simply a waste of 50 years [UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23]. PATRICK M. FERGUSSON, Vancouver, Canada Via E-mail...