Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After vainly trying to stem a run on the sagging Canadian dollar, the government decided to peg the Canadian dollar's exchange rate at a low 92½? to the U.S. dollar. (In Canada, the U.S. dollar will be worth...
...among the 75 members of the International Monetary Fund. Canada had let its exchange rate bob free ever since 1950. But the IMF, and its able Swedish director, Per Jacobsson, have been increasingly irritated at the way Canada has been manipulating its dollar to try to jog the slumping Canadian economy. The IMF turned up the heat on Ottawa to peg its dollar at a fixed rate...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club will hear a lecture by Dr. Walter A. Wood of the Arctic Institute of North America Wednesday not yesterday as reported. Dr. Wood will also show a movie of climbing activities in the St. Elias Range in the Canadian Yukon. The movie, which will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Map Room of the Faculty Club, is open to the public...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club tonight will hear a lecture by Dr. Walter A. Wood of the Arctic Institute of North America. Dr. Wood will also show a movie of climbing activities in the St. Elias Range in the Canadian Yukon. The Club is considering a trip to the Range next summer. The movie, which will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Map Room of the Faculty Club, is open to the public...
...best mimic, equipped with an enormous range of accents, inflections and dialects-including five kinds of cockney, Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German...