Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moscow Beginners was started in 1987 by the Rev. J.W. Canty, an Episcopal priest from New York City who came to Moscow in 1985 to help lay the groundwork for the group. Meanwhile, Volodya, 36, a machinist, had heard about A.A. on a Canadian radio broadcast and had written to A.A. headquarters in New York, which in turn informed Canty that he had a taker in Moscow. The group's first session, held in a hotel room across from the Kremlin, was attended by Volodya and two visiting American members of A.A. Membership grew slowly, largely because the group...
...Canadian folksingers Rick and Judy appear at Sanders Theater this Sunday, sponsored by the Harvard Childcare Center. Students and particularly families and children are welcome. Tickets...
...lights finished second in the Head of the Charles last October behind the Canadian National Club Heavyweight Crew Coach: Harry Parker Captain: Joe Harvey Last Year: (21-5, 12-2) Home Meets: Charles River The Schedule...
...When Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for the 100-meter race at the Seoul Olympics for using illegal steroids, he claimed that someone had spiked his water bottle. That dubious explanation was torpedoed last week by Johnson's longtime coach, Charlie Francis, who told a government inquiry that the runner, along with up to a dozen other athletes at his Toronto club, had knowingly been taking performance-enhancing drugs since...
...Francis, 40, did not stop there in his three days of testimony before a Canadian government inquiry called to investigate drug use among athletes in the wake of the Seoul scandal. He claimed that anabolic steroids, banned by the International Olympic Committee in 1975, have been regularly coursing through the bodies of Olympic sprinters and jumpers for decades. He told the Toronto inquiry that many of the top sprinters at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics were on steroids. Although he cited no non-Canadian athletes by name, Francis referred to drug training programs in the U.S., the Soviet Union...