Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of spaciousness: farms and small towns in the author's native Canada, places where change comes grudgingly or hardly at all, where the annual opening of a summer home confirms continuity: "Everything was always the same. Here was the boring card game that taught you the names of Canadian wildflowers; here was the Scrabble set with the Y and one of the U's missing." Such environments do not preclude drama or excitement; they lend individual events a scale of history...
Other miners continue to see a bonanza in more traditional methods. About eleven miles southeast of the Carson Hill site, Canadian-backed Sonora Mining has invested $85 million to build the largest conventional gold-processing mill in North America, due to open early next year. Sonora hopes to excavate 2 million oz. of gold from the hills around Jamestown (pop. 950), a sleepy settlement born during the 1849 gold rush...
...Club at Avenel, in the company of old comrades the likes of Gary Player, with a five-iron to the 187-yd. third hole, Palmer corked, uncorked and recorked this vintage year that saw Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd and Bob Murphy win the Masters, the U.S. Open and the Canadian Open...
State Department officials downplayed the snub. In the absence of a definitive boundary agreement, both U.S. and Canadian fishermen will keep plying the bountiful waters...
...Soviets were too stingy with vital technical data about the April 26 disaster, and too reluctant to admit to design flaws in their reactors. The Soviets insisted that their designs were basically safe, and that "gross" human error had caused history's worst nuclear power catastrophe. Said one Canadian expert: "They seem to be saying, 'You can criticize our operators but not our machines...