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Word: canadianization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boyd Jefferies, 56, chairman of the Los Angeles-based Jefferies & Co. investment firm, which specializes in assembling large blocks of stock in takeover targets. Jefferies recently supplied Canadian Raider Robert Campeau with $1.8 billion worth of stock in Allied Stores, a move that eased a $3.6 billion takeover of the retail chain. Jefferies has acknowledged receiving a subpoena, and told the New York Times that he was innocent of wrongdoing. Also served was Michael Singer, 37, a former Jefferies senior vice president who | switched in October to the Manhattan-based Salomon Brothers investment firm. Singer resigned his new post last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Crooks | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...million Canadians had had their wallets lifted -- credit cards, IDs and all. Revenue Minister Elmer MacKay told the House of Commons last week that on Oct. 30 microfiche records on nearly every 1985 Canadian taxpayer -- documents so reduced that all of them could fit inside a shoe box -- were stolen from Toronto's District Taxation Center. It was, said MacKay, the "most grievous blow to confidentiality in the department's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Breach of Confidence | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...Allowing the CIA on campus was a direct offense to all international students, since the World Court has labelled the CIA as international criminals," said protester William Clay, a Canadian who attends UMass...

Author: By Benjamin Waldman, | Title: 51 Activists Arrested at UMass | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

Although no one was hurt, last week's raid was one of the most dramatic attacks on the whaling industry in years. In one sweep it devastated Icelandic whalers and focused attention on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a militant international environmental group headed by Renegade Paul Watson, a Canadian. Sea Shepherd, which quickly took responsibility for the action, , claims that Iceland is illegally killing whales for commercial use. Indeed, the International Whaling Commission has issued a ban on commercial whaling through 1990, but it permits the killing of whales for scientific purposes. The Iceland government insists that taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...expected to look southward as well. Last week the U.S. Government encouraged that trend by sponsoring three "Invest in the U.S.A." seminars in Canada, at which lawyers and accountants dispensed tips on how to get started in business in the U.S. Twenty-five states participated, hoping to lure Canadian investment. In a new version of the old wintertime travel advertisements for Florida aimed at shivering Northerners, the U.S. is telling Canada, "Come on down!" More and more Canadians are accepting the invitation, with pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Canadians Come Calling | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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