Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giant Allied Stores never ran such an ad and never planned to sell itself off -- certainly not to a Canadian real estate company. But last week, after resisting for two months, New York City-based Allied (1985 sales: $4.1 billion) agreed to become a subsidiary of Toronto's comparatively tiny Campeau Corp. (1985 revenues: $155 million). The price tag of $3.6 billion made it the biggest Canadian takeover of a U.S. corporation in history. While Allied executives were a bit stunned, Campeau's chairman, Robert Campeau, was unabashedly delighted. "It's the best deal I've ever made...
Once unknown in the U.S., Campeau is the latest in a long line of Canadians who are streaming across the border with bundles of cash and a sharp eye for lucrative opportunities. The invaders range from hit-and-run investors mainly interested in fast profits to empire builders who have put down deep roots in the U.S. As the money pours into stores, skyscrapers and factories, capital has suddenly become the most visible Canadian export to the States since ice hockey...
Determined to buy the best refrigeration equipment possible, Trump sent a team to Canada, where there are some 4,000 skating rinks. After consulting with Canadian experts, Trump bought brine Freon chillers (cost: $640,000), which are powerful enough to make ice in July. The units were too big to fit through the building's doors, so Trump removed the roof, lowered the machinery inside, then replaced the roof. Trump, a man of expensive tastes, could not resist a luxurious touch: instead of using pine for the rest stands, as the city had planned, he chose polished teak...
This year's program is no exception. Boitano will be joined by the top American pair skating team, the Canadian women's champion, and several other nationally ranked amateur skaters. Six Harvard students and some younger skaters from the New England area will also get the opportunity to show off their talents...
Screenwriter-Director Leon Marr (adapting a novel by Joan Barfoot) is a neat freak with images. Every shot is composed precisely enough to win Edna's approval. The cool, creepy, witty splendor of this Canadian psychodrama is that it resides simultaneously inside and outside Edna's pristine, pathetic mindscape, from her daft rapture over the perfectly made bed to the moment when she hears of her husband's infidelity and tears and saliva cascade down her face. Dancing in the Dark dares to be misunderstood as a case history; in fact, it is Heartburn with a haunting irregular heartbeat...