Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrator of this drowsy thriller, now being whooped as a likely best seller, is a U.S. journalist who specializes in the Soviet Union. An old love has asked him to help find her missing stepfather, a Canadian tycoon. As the hero searches, he unravels the mystery of her birth and the farfetched identity of her aristocratic Russian mother...
...known person to go over the falls and survive. Trotter, who carried a two-way radio and two oxygen tanks in the event he ran into trouble at the bottom of the falls, says he took the plunge "to get recognition as a stunt man." As far as the Canadian authorities are concerned, he has achieved that goal. He is scheduled to appear this week before an Ontario court, where he can be fined as much as $500 for performing an illegal stunt...
...sell about $2 billion worth of assets in the next twelve months to trim its obligations. Chevron borrowed $10 billion to acquire Gulf Oil last year, and it too has been forced to cut back. The California giant is negotiating the sale of a majority stake in Gulf's Canadian operations for $2.5 billion, and may unload more property by the end of the year. The proceeds from all such transactions will go to pay off debt...
...during his visit to the U.S. last month. Ammand Singh, according to Indian officials quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail, had flown to Toronto before the ill-fated Air India flight set course for London, while Lal Singh had traveled from Toronto to Vancouver carrying a ticket for Canadian Pacific Flight 003 to Tokyo...
...India officials in Tokyo confirmed that an "A. Singh" and an "L. Singh" had booked seats on Canadian Pacific Flight 003 as well as on a connecting Air India flight from Tokyo to Bombay. Ultimately, neither man boarded either plane, although L. Singh did check his luggage through in Vancouver. The reservation for the connecting Air India flight from Tokyo prompted speculation that the bomb that exploded at Narita Airport, possibly in L. Singh's luggage, was meant to go off aboard the Tokyo-Bombay flight, but had detonated prematurely. Reports in the Japanese press that a plastic explosive...