Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, both Turner and Mulroney agree that the next Canadian government should be more representative of the country as a whole. Under Trudeau, the Liberals shrank to become the party of eastern Canada: they held only two of 77 parliamentary seats from the four provinces west of Ontario. For their part, the Conservatives have only one of 75 seats in the French-speaking province of Quebec. In parallel attempts to remedy that imbalance, Ontario-raised Turner is expected to run for Parliament from British Columbia, while Mulroney is expected to trade his safe seat in Nova Scotia for a constituency...
...shops happily found that their dollars bought a lot of the good life. Despite yearlong predictions that the U.S. currency would fall in value, it was flying higher than ever. The dollar reached a ten-year peak against the West German mark and set records against French, British and Canadian currencies...
...banks last week raised the prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 12.5% to 13%. That helped boost the dollar to record highs against the British pound and the Canadian dollar. The U.S. currency also hit a peak for the year vs. the Japanese yen, and a seven-year high against the Swiss franc. Many economists expect further hikes in interest rates and a continued strong dollar...
...Sondra Gotlieb, 47, writes about her unusual home life twice a month in the Washington Post. The address: 1746 Massachusetts Avenue. She is the wife of Allan Gotlieb, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., and her official residence, she quips, "is something between a private home and a public drinking place." The energetic and outspoken author (two novels plus travel and humor works) peoples her pieces with a lively cast of capital types. Melvin Thistle Jr. from State always arrives late; the elderly Baron Spitte switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically...
Such hype is also the problem with Vengeance. Its author, George Jonas, a Canadian writer and radio producer, satisfied himself that the Israeli's story could be believed, though he is less sure that the supposed secret agent, code-named "Avner," was, as he claimed, leader of the mission. In his foreword, Jonas acknowledges that much of the tale rests on the unverified claims of one man and concedes that the book uses "reconstructed" dialogue. None of these caveats is suggested in the title page's promise of "the true story...