Word: cosmopolitanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, the Liberal Party, headed by Prime Minister John Turner, won only 40 seats, down from 147 in 1980. The defeat was not only a loss for Turner but a national repudiation of the party dominated by the cosmopolitan, sometimes cavalier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, under whose leadership the Liberals had ruled Canada for all but nine months since 1968. Turner, a Toronto corporate lawyer who became his party's leader after Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister in June, came close to losing his own constituency in the western province of British Columbia. He eventually prevailed...
...Israel, all those contrasts and conflicts were for decades embodied by the Sephardim*- (who flocked to Israel from southern European countries, North Africa and the Middle East) and the Ashkenazim (who came from Central and Eastern Europe). For 30 years the more cosmopolitan Ashkenazim have been at the top of their nation's political, financial and cultural worlds, while most Sephardim have been relegated to a "Second Israel," an underclass accustomed to deprivation and often associated with crime...
...growth and diversification in student enrollments over the past few decades have earned the Harvard Summer School a commanding reputation today as a truly cosmopolitan center of learning during the summer months in Cambridge...
...student body had grown continuously over he decades and become more cosmopolitan, and in the early days of the house system a kind of true identification with the individual houses took place on the part of both faculty and students. Professors became integral members of the houses, dined there, and mixed with the students in a way that after the Second World War, with the enormous expansion of the student body, was never to be repeated in the same intimate manner. For just a few years the system came close to the ideal of an intellectual fellowship that had been...
...wide--Custom Shop sports four bright red chairs and a cozy waiting room in the back. It seems like the typical strictly male barber shop at first glance. But among the last six issues of Sports illustrated on a table in the waiting room are a few issues of Cosmopolitan and Vogue...