Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minting and sale were authorized by Congress last year after the President issued an Executive Order banning the importation of Krugerrands from South Africa. That left the Canadian Maple Leaf as the major bullion coin available in the U.S. The public's appetite for such coins is already large, and a little-known fact will even enhance it: the new tax bill signed into law last week allows people to put gold coins in their IRA accounts, which surely will be used as an added selling point by dealers...
...decision will mainly benefit lumber companies in the American Northwest, which have chafed as the Canadian share of the U.S. softwood lumber market has risen from 19% in 1975 to 33%. But the tariff announcement stirred resentment in Ottawa, where it was pointed out that the U.S. Commerce Department three years ago found the same Canadian export practices to be acceptable. Canadian International Trade Minister Patricia Carney said the latest decision "cannot be justified" and added that her government would "pursue all avenues available to us to argue against this determination." There were worries that the softwood-tariff announcement would...
...could keep track of all the couples who had met and married at the G, but everyone knew one of the reasons for the blossoming romances: the Tattler, the house newspaper that treated everyone as an enticement. When Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler visited what he called "Disneyland with knishes," he remembered how, thanks to the paper, "the painfully shy old maid and the flat-chested girl and the good-natured lump" were transformed into "sparkling, captivating" Barbara; Ida, the "fun-loving frolicker"; and Miriam, a "charm-laden lass who makes a visit to table 20 F a must...
When Wright first heard the Canadian saxophonist perform, she instantly decided they needed him to play for the band. "He happened to be absolutely wonderful, and we said `You gotta be in our band.' By the luck of the gods he was interested...
...deadline, the Reagan Administration had agreed in August to subsidize the wheat, but it was not enough to keep the Soviets from going to competing suppliers. Two days after letting the U.S. deal lapse, Moscow signed a five-year pact to buy at least 25 million tons of Canadian grain...