Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEDNESDAY Can the "Canadian Air Force," led by Nicolas Fontaine, fly away with aerials skiing? The ladies' figure-skating short program: 2 min. 40 sec. of technical terror...
...adorned with various sponsors' logos. Within the Olympic system, competitors must wear officially sanctioned uniforms provided by a contracted supplier. Mark Fawcett, Canada's dominant giant-slalom racer, who draws a good portion of his income from Fila, must suspend that contract to advertise Nike, official sponsor of the Canadian team. At one point, Fawcett was so frustrated by the rule that he tried to join the New Zealand team. In the end, he decided to go Canadian anyway...
...boom is being fueled largely by two relatively new corporate players: the Walt Disney Co., which has two shows pulling in the family audience (Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King); and Livent Inc., the Canadian company run by impresario Garth Drabinsky that has produced Ragtime along with such crowd pleasers as Barrymore and the hit revival of Show Boat. Both companies have brought fresh ideas--economic and artistic--to Broadway as well as deep pockets: The Lion King cost a reported $20 million to mount, a Broadway record; Ragtime came in for about half that, but Drabinsky...
...Nation on Trial evolved from two articles published in British journals earlier this year. The first was written by Ruth Bettina Birn, the chief historian of the Canadian Justice Department's War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section. The second was the work of Norman G. Finkelstein, a professor of general studies at New York University and adjunct associate professor of political science at Hunter College...
That weapon was realized at an early age and it was one of the reasons why the Canadian national team came calling on Storey when he was only 17 years old. Even though he was the youngest player by five years, Storey was tossed into two contests during his two-week stint with Team Canada...