Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other corporate pair-offs, Dow Chemical and Domtar, a Canadian paper manufacturer, are setting up a recycling operation that will include several large plants. Next month Mobil and GENPAK, a food-packaging manufacturer in Glens Falls, N.Y., will inaugurate the first recycling plant in the U.S. that will handle fast-food containers and other products made of polystyrene foam. The firms will transform the plastic into pea-size pellets that can be used in wall insulation and industrial packaging...
...formed in Basel and began producing a cough syrup called Sirolin. The company prospered at first but then almost went broke during World War I because one of its important markets was revolution-torn Russia. Fearing a Nazi invasion in the 1930s, Hoffmann-La Roche created a twin Canadian-based company called Sapac to run its overseas operations...
...agents, drug profiles also catalog the latest nationwide arrest trends. They are constantly updated to keep up with the fertile imaginations of smugglers. Techniques have ranged from hiding drugs in objects -- like suitcases, plaques and aerosol cans -- to concealing them on the person. "I once had an innocent-looking Canadian couple in their 60s come back from a Jamaica holiday wearing body wraps containing 10 lbs. of hashish," recalls Miami Customs supervisory inspector Robert Hessler. Some couriers have been found with contraband stuffed in body orifices, others with cocaine-filled condoms in their stomachs. "Nothing is beyond what people will...
...Texas Air, currently owes to Eastern and by handing over to Texas Air $79 million in Eastern assets. Those properties include Eastern's profitable New York-Montreal route, one airport gate at New York's La Guardia Airport and eight pairs of takeoff-and-landing slots at U.S. and Canadian airports...
Other recent speakers include Canadian satirist Garry Trudeau, journalist Ted Koppel, industrialist Lee A. Ioccoca and newspaper publisher Katherine Graham...