Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...E.D.F. report coincided with a visit to Washington by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who has tried unsuccessfully for years to persuade the Reagan Administration to tackle the acid-rain problem. Mulroney last week called the situation a "rapidly escalating ecological tragedy." Even before his arrival, however, Washington rejected a Canadian proposal that the U.S. limit nitrogen-oxide emissions...
...Jersey's second choice in the 1985 draft, Sean Burke, joined the team in mid-March after spending the year as the Canadian Olympic goaltender. Schoenfeld immediately gave him the number-one goaltending position in New Jersey...
When four French officials and 17 sailors set off two weeks ago into rough Newfoundland seas aboard the trawler Croix de Lorraine, they hooked some trouble. The crew was arrested for illegally fishing in Canadian waters, and clapped in jail for 48 hours. Last week Paris recalled its Ambassador to Canada for "consultations," and passport and customs officials delayed Canadian visitors for hours at French airports...
...sales level off, many contestants have concluded that the best way to thrive is to buy out some of the competition. For five weeks, Canadian Developer Robert Campeau engaged in a bidding battle with R.H. Macy for Federated Department Stores, a retail giant with 650 outlets, including such prestigious chains as Bloomingdale's, I. Magnin and Bullock's. Federated had tentatively agreed to a deal with Macy, which has 97 stores, but Campeau, who already owns the Allied Stores chain of 286 retail outlets in the U.S., hiked his offer. Tired of being tugged in two directions, Federated set last...
...after came news that some desktop computers at Hebrew University in Israel were growing more and more lethargic, as if a hidden organism were sapping their strength. Then, one day last month, thousands of Macintosh users were greeted with an unexpected "message of peace" from the publisher of a Canadian computer magazine, which flashed briefly on their screens and disappeared without a trace...