Word: cantonization
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From its source on North Carolina's Black Mountain to the town of Canton, 22 miles away, the Pigeon River is a clean and lovely stream, lively with trout and tourists. By the time it leaves Canton (pop. 5,000), flowing toward and finally into Cocke County, Tenn., 50 miles away, the Pigeon has been transmogrified into a sludgy mess that looks like oily coffee and smells as bad as rotten eggs. The cause of this revolting change: industrial wastes that Champion International Corp. has been dumping into the Pigeon since the company opened a paper mill in Canton...
...hockey team escapes a late-game rally from St. Lawrence and wins, 6-5, in Canton, N.Y. The victory gives the Crimson the regular-season ECAC title...
...much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately owned businesses blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most important is a bountiful selection of grades and cuts of pork, which has been rationed...
Coach Mike Gilligan will tell his Catamounts to bear down. This is Boston, not Canton, N.Y., guys. Ian Boyce tells Gilligan not to worry and goes on to score all of UVM's five goals...
...CANTON, N.Y.--The St. Lawrence line of center Jamie Baker and wings Joe Day and Gary Robertson accounted for six goals Saturday, as the Saints routed Princeton, 10-1, for a sweep of their ECAC quarterfinal hockey series...