Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HOUSTON--President-elect George Bush promised yesterday to "never neglect our friends in this hemisphere" as he met incoming Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari and heralded the election victory of Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as a triumph for free trade...
Ellesmere, a Canadian island just 500 miles south of the North Pole, is a beautiful but forbidding world where the summer sun is candlelight soft and few living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf...
...first game was played under Harvard rules, and resulted in a Harvard win. The second game, played the next day and under Canadian rules, was a scoreless standoff...
Although Humperdink's serves up "the best salmon and halibut in Texas" (according to Thompkins), nostalgic Harvard alumni visiting the bar today will probably be dining on hamburgers with canadian bacon and cheddar cheese. Yalies can have theirs with sauteed mushrooms and mozzarella cheese...
...drug-related disqualifications at the Seoul Olympics, including the infamous demedaling of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, have cast a worldwide pall over competitive athletics. Last week sports officials from 29 countries met in Borlange, Sweden, to draw up tough drug-testing proposals aimed at stamping out the use of anabolic steroids by athletes. If adopted by enough sports governing bodies, the recommendations could lead the way to making the use of steroids by top-ranking international athletes virtually impossible...