Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rogers has about 450,000 subscribers in Arizona, California, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon and Texas. The firm is is about the 20th-largest cable operator in the United States, and--with extensive Canadian franchises--the third-or fourth-largest in North America, according to company officials...
McGill usually has an edge over Harvard in the annual match-up, mainly because its players are more experienced. Canadians grow up playing rugby the same way Americans grow up playing football. So while the majority of American rugby players learn the sport on college campuses, Canadian players have been playing since childhood...
...Farley Mowat, a maverick Canadian with his own obsessions about endangered wildlife (Never Cry Wolf; A Whale for the Killing) has an even greater concern for the truth; he ransacks the victim's diaries, analyzes her work and interviews some hostile associates who believe "she got what she wanted"; "She mistreated everyone around her and finally was done in." A strange figure begins to emerge from the mists. From childhood on, Mowat observes, the coltish, willful Californian was beset with resentments toward the father who deserted his family when she was six. Spiritually restless, she converted to Roman Catholicism, then...
Scheduled speakers include Reed's biographer Robert Rosenstone and Canadian writer David Lawson, who will recite several of Reed's poems. Reed's grandniece Susan Reed, a writer for People Magazine, is also scheduled to participate...
...free trade, working out the details proved to be maddeningly complex. Just three weeks ago, Simon Reisman, Canada's chief negotiator, stormed out of the talks in Washington and flew home. The major sticking point was agreement on a mechanism to resolve trade conflicts. At Mulroney's insistence, the Canadians returned to the bargaining table, but the wrangling continued until the deadline day. Finally Mulroney's chief of staff, Derek Burney, asked U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker when would be a good time for the Prime Minister to call the White House to tell Reagan their effort had failed. "That...