Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, in August, when the Pentagon sent a military submarine on a maneuver through Canadian territory near the Arctic without asking permission, Brian Mulroney's Tory government hung its head in shame for the country's impotence. Criticism was lost in the wind; Canada had no clout...
...funny thing happened this week. In baseball's American League East, a Canadian team from Toronto, Ontario, captured the division crown...
...embarrassments of the past summer have only compounded Canadian paranoia vis-a-vis her giant neighbor. Statistics disclosed in June showed that Canada's economy continues to suffer feebly beside the U.S's robust (though inauspicious) financial recovery...
...biggest cause of the trade imbalance, however, is that the overvaluation of the dollar has made U.S. exports artificially expensive to foreign buyers, and imports artificially cheap to American consumers. Quick example: loggers in the Pacific Northwest figure that the dollar's bloated exchange rate against its Canadian cousin (an American buck was worth $1.36 Canadian last week) gives Canadian lumber exported to the U.S. an automatic 30% price advantage, contributing to a $20 billion deficit in U.S. trade with Canada. With curiously bad timing considering the mood in Washington, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week proposed...
...American, French, Italian, West German, British, Canadian and Swiss rescue workers, the challenge was grueling and at times gruesome. The din of Mexico City traffic fouled readings on some of their sensitive listening probes; thus the gear was used most effectively at night. When survivors were discovered within the rubble, rescue teams dug long tunnels, frequently by hand, to reach them...