Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspend the 1986 U.S.F.L. season after jurors awarded the league a mere $1 in damages in its antitrust suit against the National Football League. Since that left 400 contracted U.S.F.L. players at least temporarily out of work, owners gave them the O.K. to try out for N.F.L. and Canadian teams...
...Canadian Coast Guard vessel Leonard Cowley is en route to the site to transfer the victims and take them to St. John's or another suitable port, Whitehead said. Heavy fog was reported in the area...
...name of the mystery ship was not immediately known. Canadian officials said initial reports indicated the people in the lifeboats had been forced to abandon the ship, but there were language problems and it was not known...
...Canadian Armed Forces Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Maj. Bill Whitehead told The Associated Press that the rescue operation began when a Canadian fishing vessel, the Atlantic Reaper, radioed yesterday afternoon that it had spotted two large lifeboats...
...other Canadian fishing boats, the Mary Teresa and Betford, joined the Atlantic Reaper and reported they had picked up 150 survivors, Whitehead said. He reported the Atlantic Reaper initially radioed that 147 people had been rescued, but the figure was placed at 150 following additional reports from the two other vessels. Those reports said the survivors were cold and hungry...