Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With members returning from the American and Canadian Olympic teams, this year's squad has unusual strength not only in its individual members but also in its leadership...
Frank Augustyn, a recent Canadian acquisition to the company, provides a striking contrast to Bauer in his role as Albrecht. While her dramatic style is self-contained and introverted, his is up front and almost modern. Few of his gestures come from the established balletic tradition; they are more everyday expressions that seem somewhat out of place in Giselle's old-fashioned setting. This, however, is only a minor annoyance. Augustyn is a natural, easy dancer. He moves with suppleness and unstudied certainty. Even though some of his acting may be jarring, this never occurs during his dancing...
...Kennedy Space Center carrying a record seven passengers. Among its crew are two women: Kathryn Sullivan, who is scheduled this week to become the first American woman to walk in space, and Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut. Also aboard is Marc Garneau, the first Canadian astronaut, an engineer who will study the damage done to Canadian lakes by acid rain. Within hours after the launch, Ride commanded the shuttle's robot arm to release a $40 million heat-sensing satellite that will aid long-range weather forecasting. The crew unfolded the shuttle's 35-ft. radar...
...early 1970s, the Innuit and the Cree Indians, who also dwell in the area, brought suit in Canadian courts to halt construction of the $15 billion James Bay hydroelectric-power project, charging that it would result in damage to their lands. In 1973 the Quebec Superior Court ruled in the plaintiffs' favor. But after a one-week suspension, work on the immense undertaking was resumed when the Quebec Court of Appeal reversed the earlier ruling...
...week's end, with 2 concern mounting that the I decaying remains of the " caribou carcasses could pollute the river system, a Canadian cleanup operation was clearing the freezing streams. Antlers were chopped off by Eskimo crew members, and the dead caribou, some weighing as much as 400 Ibs., were tied together in bunches to be airlifted to higher ground. Some carcasses were destined for mass burial, but others will be left for predators to feed on Says Canadian Biologist Alexander Banfield: "This is going to be a happy winter for the wolves...