Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five American universities compete against five of their Canadian counterparts in the tournament. The U.S. was represented by Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, UMass, and Lock Haven State College. Lock Haven surprised the field by winning the University Cup for the greatest amount of fish caught. Over the three day period, the three men and two women on the Lock Haven team poled 1,696 lbs. of fish...
...necessary to look to the future for nuclear and environmental disasters, as Milliken said earlier. Lives have already been scratched at the Love Canal near Niagra Falls in New York, because of negligent disposal of chemicals 16 years ago; Canadian environmental protection officials are currently investigating the construction industry's use of contaminated landfill from an abandoned uranium mine in Quebec, and have unveiled radioactive highways and beaches and backyard gardens. Scientists have discovered that long-term exposure to federally-rated "safe" low-level radiation has killed people living and working near nuclear power plants. These researchers have seen their...
...been delayed, it will come. The companies prudently are putting huge sums into diversification. They own far more coal than firms that specialize in coal mining, are active in uranium production and solar power research. Exxon and Gulf are partners with Cities Service and the Canadian government in Syncrude, a company that will open a plant designed to squeeze oil at last from the famed Athabasca tar sands. The sands, in northern Alberta, have long been known to contain gigantic amounts of petroleum, but up to now the cost of extracting it has not been justified by the price. Some...
Nastase, currently under a 90-day ban for his loathsome court behavior, threw the finals of the 1975 Canadian Open Championships after a linesman's call went against him in the first set. Nastase sleepwalked through the final sets, winning but one game, and was fined $6,000 for "not using his best efforts." But in other sports-remember baseball's Black Sox?-he might well have been banned for life for throwing a game...
...from Kansas City, or for that metter, anyplace but an East Coast private school, odds are you've never even heard of squash. Canadian junior Mike Desaulniers has definitely heard of squash--in fact, he's the number one amateur in North America--and how many pro squash players do you know...