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When George Bush outlined his new antidrug strategy last week, he put the stress on bringing home the war on narcotics. Zeroing in on domestic drug consumption, the President's battle plan called for harsher penalties for users and stepped-up law enforcement. In Canton, Ohio, officials have already taken a step in that direction. Last month the city council passed a law making it a crime for anyone to be in any area, including the city's public parks, where drugs or drug paraphernalia are being sold. There was just one problem: people merely passing through a park where...
...Nike faltered, Reebok galloped ahead. Beginning its life in the U.S. as a subsidiary of a British shoemaker founded in the 1890s, Reebok, based in Canton, Mass., is now a publicly held firm that owns its former parent company. Its mid-'80s success came from inventing and persistently exploiting the market for women's aerobic shoes, a shift in the business that Nike had completely missed. Reebok's revenues zoomed from $4 million in 1982 to $900 million...
What does this mean? Who knows? Maybe this writer was thinking about the Molson Golden ad that flashed across a television screen in a hotel room somewhere in Canton...
Indeed, Wisconsin did show well in its first-round series against St. Lawrence last weekend in Canton, N.Y. The East's third-seeded team had to cancel its reservations on Air Minnesota after only two games...
...Lawrence, ECAC tournament champion and the number-three seed in the East, was the victim of the biggest first-round upset. Wisconsin (West #6) dumped the Saints in Canton, N.Y., on their home ice in straight games. Wisconsin faces Minnesota (West #2) in Minneapolis in the quarterfinals...