Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fare hikes have been confined to the Big Apple. Cineplex Odeon, the Canadian-based chain that first raised the tariff, claims it has no plans to boost prices at its 1,614 other screens in North America. In Hollywood, as well as in Washington, Boston and Chicago, $6 is still tops, while $5.50 gets you through the door in Houston, and $5 is the limit in Atlanta and Cleveland. But Gordon Crawford, a California entertainment analyst, predicts that by the end of 1988 fans in Los Angeles will be paying $7. Some Angelenos seem sanguine at the prospect. "Movies...
BEST TRACK RECORDS Racing toward the 1988 Olympics, Canadian Sprinter Ben Johnson and American Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee dazzled at the Rome world track-and-field championships by winning their events. After 122 consecutive victories, U.S. Superstar Edwin Moses lost in the 400-meter hurdles...
...spent ten days poking around farms, processing plants and supermarkets. At one cattle ranch, he asked to see "some of the workers." The rancher replied that there were none; he ran the spread of several hundred acres with only his family and a handful of day laborers. A Canadian host who speaks Russian heard Gorbachev mutter under his breath, "We are not going to see this ((in the Soviet Union)) for another 50 years." Eugene Whelan, then Minister of Agriculture and Gorbachev's official host, was surprised on another occasion to hear the Soviet leader comment about the invasion...
...Soviet Union, who called on Gorbachev in 1981. Says Chrystal: "He does believe, never having been here, that the U.S. has abject poverty and quite a lot of it. My impression is that he thinks there are whole towns that are just sort of destitute." Eugene Whelan, the former Canadian Agriculture Minister who was later Gorbachev's host in North America, also visited him in 1981 and got into an argument about armaments. Says Whelan: "He was going on about how the U.S. was the aggressor, how it was making weapons. He said the U.S. was returning to the conditions...
...Canadian Ambassador Allan Gotlieb refused to waive diplomatic immunity to testify about a lunch he had with Deaver in January 1985 to discuss acid rain. Without evidence about the lunch, that section of the count was dismissed. The jury finally acquitted Deaver of the remaining charges involving acid rain...