Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technology companies, with dreary results; none came up with anything promising. When in 1974-75 reports came out that Gulf had made huge illegal payments to U.S. and foreign politicians, Dorsey was forced to resign, and McAfee, a big, bluff, humorous technician, was brought in from the company's Canadian subsidiary...
Predictably, there are occasional grumblings about the blossoming foreign presence. Southern Florida has long had a large Cuban population, but more recent arrivals include tens of thousands of French Canadian small businessmen and their families, who have fled Quebec out of fear that it may secede from Canada and pitch the country's economy into a tailspin. In Hollywood and Hallandale, just south of Fort Lauderdale, 20% of the population is now French speaking; the Canadian flag flies over bars, restaurants and motels, many of which are Canadian owned. Longtime residents gripe that the new arrivals are clannish, refuse...
...other communities plant their gardens, organize their Little Leagues, crown their beauty queens. North Creek, N.Y., a hamlet 100 miles south of the Canadian border, celebrates the joys of May in its own distinctive fashion-staging a carnival on the nearby Hudson River for people who like to climb into canoes and kayaks and, paddling desperately, race through the rapids.near town...
...authors ought to know better of what they write. Canadian Charles Templeton, a ninth-grade dropout who later earned a Princeton Seminary degree, was almost as famous an evangelist as his friend Billy Graham, until he began losing his faith. Since then he has held three of the top news jobs in Canada: managing editor of the Toronto Star, news director of one of its two TV networks, and editor in chief of Maclean's magazine. Irishman Malachi Martin was a professor at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, and advised Cardinal Bea during the Second Vatican Council...
...background, white-gloved waiters are busily setting out plates of oysters on the half shell when the guest of honor, tiny Rene Levesque from Quebec, strides in searching for hands. Bleary Canadian reporters tumble in behind...