Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grade school, Lind chose to drop hockey and play ringette, a derivative of hockey predominatly played by school-age Canadian girls...
When it came time for Lind to choose colleges, she was initially going to apply to a pair of Canadian schools, Queen's College in Ontario and the University of British Columbia. But her brother Howie--then at Harvard Business School--told Lind about the women's hockey team at Harvard...
...Lind has been proving for the past three years that she can do almost anything she wants to on ice. The 5-ft., 2-in. Canadian has brought great speed and a good wrist shot from her ringette days...
...full-support approach has bolstered the athlete's confidence. The Boitano challenge? "If we both did a perfect program, I'd come out ahead," he says positively. Orser & Co. are leaving nothing to chance. Workouts run to eight hours a day, six days a week. Recently, the entire Canadian figure- skating team rented Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens and simulated Olympic conditions, including the actual announcer who will be in Calgary. "Now in my , practice, I can visualize how I'm going to feel in the Saddledome," says Orser. "I can picture the audience, all of the sounds, everything...
...have invented strategies like the "Pac-man" defense, in which a raided company turns around and gobbles up its attacker. Almost every corporate battle in which they have been involved has become the stuff of high drama, from Du Pont's $7.4 billion takeover of Conoco in 1981 to Canadian Robert Campeau's current $5.5 billion bid to acquire Federated Department Stores...