Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goulart's third measure yielded to the clamor from all sides to nationalize major foreign-owned utility companies. But he made it clear that he intends to give fair value for the properties. Since World War II, increased expenses and government-set rates have caught the U.S. and Canadian companies that run Brazil's telephone and power plants in a profit squeeze that has kept them from needed expansion. Canada's $1 billion Brazilian Traction, Light & Power Co. Ltd., which owns 82% of Brazil's 956,000 telephones and one-third of the installed power capacity...
...other new folk-girls, although her voice and delivery are lighter and the impact of her performances is different: for Joan's tragic, gypsy quality, Bonnie substitutes a fresh, willowy charm that never deserts her in even the darkest laments. She mixes American and French-Canadian songs, and she has a more antic taste than most of her contemporaries: On the wedding night, When he came to bed with me, He bit me on my shoulder And nearly broke my knee...
...Canadian-born, the daughter of a machinist, Bonnie did her apprenticeship in U.S. coffeehouses and Canadian lumber camps...
...other people can treat more patients and train more doctors and nurses. Technically domiciled in Geneva, he spends nearly half the year flying around the world, visiting WHO's member states. Coming from nonaligned Brazil, Dr. Candau began work at WHO with an innate advantage over his predecessor (Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm): the Soviet Union and its satellites, which had walked out of WHO in 1949 for political reasons, accepted his neutrality and returned. As smooth in manner and speech as in his grooming, Dr. Candau refuses to talk politics, now finds that nobody expects him to. A thoroughly...
...Three Canadian newspapers-the Toronto, Ont., Globe and Mail, the Kingston, Ont., Whig-Standard and the Regina, Sask., Leader-Post-dropped the pig-goat sequence. (As a substitute the Globe and Mail reprised a Pogo swampland series from the 1940s.) In the U.S., the Toledo Blade temporarily killed Kelly. And in Tokyo, the English language Asahi Evening News, having run the sequence for 11 days, agreed to drop the rest of it after a protest from the Soviet embassy...