Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this should be so is puzzling. Other nations do not find it impossible to brew serious beer. The Germans and Austrians are masters, of course. Scandinavians, Dutch and French are experts. Italians see no point in beer, but what they make is drinkable. Mexicans produce good summer-weight cerveza. Canadian beer includes such hairy, out-of-the-swamp- and-still-dripping specialties as Moosehead, fondly known as Moosebreath by truck drivers in the Northeast. Japanese export beer tends to be thin and disappointing, which is to say it tends to taste far better than our mainstream belly wash. For that...
...system must assure that we spend as a nation an "appropriate" amount, relative to other needs and wants, on health care. A national health insurance system--with a much larger administrative role for the individual states than earlier versions of NHI called for, a setup somewhat akin to the Canadian system--with expenditure limits would meet our needs...
...energetic Knapps, agriculturalists sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention, are among the record total of 39,309 U.S. and Canadian Protestants engaged in overseas mission careers. Adding "short-term" workers, who usually put in stints of less than a year, the North American Protestant foreign legion numbers 67,242 (in contrast to 9,124 Roman Catholics). It is sponsored by 764 mission boards (of which the Knapps' is the largest), with a combined income -- largely from donations -- of $1.3 billion a year...
...escalation does not extend to all branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...
...Canadian--N. U. forward Fiona Rice--proved the Crimson's chief nemesis last night. Rice, from Mississauga, Ont., recorded a hat trick and won the tournament's Most Valuable Player award...