Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard heavyweight eight, which won the Henley Regatta in July, placed 14th and 16th in the championship eights. The Crimson split its best rowers into two boats and never challenged the Canadian Olympic Team (racing as the Ridley Grads) which won the event...
...Radcliffe heavyweights placed fourth in championship eights, nine seconds behind the Canadian entry that won the division...
...keep this high roller hooked, Caesars plied him with complimentary hotel accommodations and a private jet shuttle between Toronto and Atlantic City, as well as an $8,500 Rolex watch. The casino discovered belatedly that he had financed his bets by embezzling $10.2 million from his employer, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Arrested in Toronto in 1982, Molony is now serving a six-year prison term...
This method has scored some dazzling successes over the years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, for example, used it to trace prints from a box of pizza to a professional hit man who had gunned down a target while posing as a delivery boy. But some police complain that their computers are too slow and too undependable for routine police work. A typical computer search of the files can take more than six seconds per fingerprint and often overlooks prints that are even slightly smudged...
...fair, though, blame for its demise should be spread among several conspirators. Director Ted Kotcheff greedily sought to corner Quebec's French-Canadian market (Joshua was made and expected to flourish in Montreal) by casting Gabrielle Lazure, a French-Canadian starlet, in the lead role of Joshua's whitebread bedmate. This idea backfired, however, because the real Lazure has a strong accent, immediately conspicuous to the Montreal ear. To patch this up, her lines have been dubbed by a monotoned off-screen actress whose voice doesn't at all sound like it comes from Lazure's body. Plainly, a huge...