Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grisly tale, opened in Cambridge, Mass. Seven weeks later, the Houston Grand Opera premiered his operatic setting of Doris Lessing's novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Now, and most spectacularly, comes 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in Vienna. The production will tour 39 U.S. and Canadian cities beginning in the fall...
...banishes them from billboards by 1991. (As in the U.S., cigarette makers in Canada do not advertise on TV.) Beginning next year, every pack of cigarettes sold in Canada will contain a leaflet explaining the dangers of smoking. The tobacco industry fears that the Canadian legislation will inspire a similar crackdown by Congress...
Moscow retaliated by expelling three Canadian diplomats and barring ten others from re-entering the country. Despite Soviet charges that Ottawa had committed a "rude antagonist act," the Kremlin's response was relatively restrained, suggesting that the affair was unlikely to seriously disrupt relations between the two countries...
Malard is dead center in the biggest and most cantankerous drought North America has had in 50 years, stretching from California to Georgia, from the Canadian prairies to the Texas plains, withering, parching and shrinking land, crops, rivers, lakes, animals and people. Federal emergencies have been declared in 30 states. Grain farmers in the upper Midwest may lose nearly three-quarters of their crops. There is more trouble to come if the rains don't. On Friday dark storm clouds scudded across the skies over parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but the squalls soon gave way to the familiar...
Already, three other nations have faced similar surplus quandaries. Japan restricts excess retirement money to a reserve fund, which boosts the country's savings rate. The Canadian government lends its pension cushion to provinces to support schools and build roads, and Sweden's fund is used to finance mortgages and pay off debt. Lending the money can be a good idea, says Barry Bosworth, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, "if the loan goes to develop capital growth and productivity rather than consumption...