Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspicious Iraqi delays in allowing agency visits at the site. But France subsequently revealed that under a secret agreement with Iraq, French technicians had kept a constant eye on the workings of the Tammuz plant. That same year, while negotiating an upgraded agreement with Pakistan over safeguards at its Canadian-built reactor, the agency, without alleging any wrongdoing, said that it was unable to certify the facility. About two years later, after a new safeguards understanding was reached, the I.A.E.A. withdrew the advisory...
...program developed rapidly along several fronts, some evidently peaceful in intent, others less so. By 1973 the country possessed a Canadian-built commercial nuclear reactor fueled by natural uranium. At about the same time, Bhutto entered negotiations with France for a commercial-scale plutonium- reprocessing plant. It would be capable of extracting from spent fuel more than 300 lbs. of plutonium annually, enough for as many as 30 atom bombs and far more than necessary for Pakistan's peaceful nuclear program...
Most of the 16 stories are set in the Canada of the 1930s and 1940s, an era of lingering Victorianism when citizens flouted convention at their risk. A compelling case is the French-Canadian family in Saturday. Fiercely anticlerical, the husband and wife send their children to English-Canadian schools, where the Roman Catholic Church cannot reach them. This seems to result in an estrangement between parents and offspring. The girls marry English Canadians: "the two Bobs, the Don, the Ian, and the last one -- Keith, or Ken?" Their bemused father cannot tell them apart at family gatherings...
...persistent is the plight of small children in Home Truths that the reader may fairly guess at some trauma glimpsed or experienced during the author's childhood in Montreal. In Orphans' Progress, for example, two wretched little girls are locked up in a French-Canadian convent school. Eight-year-old Mildred and twelve-year-old Cathie are bathed every two weeks, the one wearing a rubber apron and the other a muslin shift so they cannot see their own bodies. The state of Mildred's thumb tells it all: "Sucked white, (it) was taped to the palm of her hand...
...mother's oldest brother. Of course he met my mother, and he fell in love with her immediately. She was very beautiful. I look like her. I have my father's eyes but I have my mother's smile and a lot of her facial structure. She was French Canadian but she was born in Bay City. The reason I was born in Bay City is that we were at my grandmother's house. I'm the third oldest child and the oldest girl. There were six of us. Then my mother died and my father remarried three years later...