Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporal Danny Fudge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stopped for coffee in a Yukon fishing village one day last summer and proceeded to make the catch of his life. In the Yukon Motel restaurant in Teslin (pop. 350), the ruddy, barrel-chested Mountie eyed a 300-lb. stranger sitting nearby. He thought he might have seen the man before -- on a wanted poster. The stranger, it turned out, was Charles McVey, a particularly notorious smuggler sought by U.S. Customs officials for illegally exporting millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment to Moscow. The sharp-eyed Corporal Fudge...
...fashioned notions, like the idea that women are not well suited to handle money. But the bank is not above appealing to stereotypical womanly values. It now offers fine sable coats, in lieu of interest, to big-time customers. A deposit of $50,000 for five years earns a Canadian sable worth $25,000, or putting down $100,000 brings a $60,000 Russian coat. The furs are the equivalent of an 11 1/4% interest rate. The offer strikes many feminists as ironic and animal lovers as outrageous...
Michael J. Arlen '52, a writer for The New Yorker magazine, declared after considerable thought, "I think Harvard will probably win based on their greater capacity for abstract thought and superior personal hygiene, unless, of course, The Game is played indoors on ice, in which case any good Canadian team is bound to triumph...
...Onofrio, who hails from Vancouver, B.C., has an increased role in this year's squad because of the graduation of key scorers such as fellow Canadian John Catliff...
...front-page article in the Chicago Tribune, they related the extraordinary saga of Robert R., a 16-year-old black Missourian who, they believe, died of AIDS in 1969. The case may represent the earliest documented instance of AIDS in North America, predating that of Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant. Dugas, who contracted AIDS before 1980 and died in 1984, was publicly identified as "Patient Zero" only last month. Tissue samples from Robert R. may eventually reveal what caused the virus to spread...