Word: cantone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cantons, the book suggests, should be the 306 magisterial districts that already exist in South Africa. Each canton would have its own parliament and possibly its own constitution. Every level of government would be barred from passing laws that discriminate on racial grounds and would be required to apply all laws equally to all races. "In other words," write the authors, "government would be color-blind...
...Larries and Elis met twice during the regular season. Both times, the home team prevailed. Yale slipped away, 3-2, in New Haven in December and SLU took a 6-3 decision in Canton, N.Y. in February...
...fell victim to those newsworthy, yet oversimplified assessments of American Asians. Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...
...guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour lunch, and people along the route, which included Shanghai, Kunming and Canton, gave her the largest reception yet of any foreign trip during her 34-year reign. Trouble was someone forgot to keep her husband Prince Philip, 65, amused. Known as a man with a short fuse and a tart tongue, he saw some students from the University of Edinburgh...
...auction block, Withington's rhythm slows. "Twenty-two thousand to 23,000, do I have 23?" He has stopped bouncing. A pause, then "Yes, now 24,000, yes, 25?" A longer pause. Here, if the article on Withington's auction block were merely a blue Canton platter that had peaked out at a predictable $500, or a coffin-top candle stand already breathing thin air at $1,250, Withington might make a fist in the direction of the groggy second bidder and say, "Pow! He's out cold." The joshing might revive the wounded warrior. If not, it would liven...