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Word: creeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, the waterfront along Vancouver's False Creek, a narrow inlet off the city's main harbor, was covered with rusting railroad tracks and a few ramshackle factories. Garbage was strewn everywhere. Today the 173-acre site is the home of Expo 86, the Canadian world's fair that opens May 2 and runs through Oct. 13. The fair's theme is transportation, and visitors will be able to gaze at exhibits ranging from a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to a Japanese high- speed passenger train that can travel more than 250 m.p.h. Moored in the harbor are dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Westward Ho to Expo 86 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Growing up in Stoney Creek, Ont., a small community on the outskirts of Hamilton, Blair soon found his hockey skills in demand...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Taking it For Granted in the Net | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

When he reached the age of 15, Blair joined the Stoney Creek junior team, which plays at the junior C level. Canadian amateur hockey has four levels of juniors: junior C the lowest, junior B, Tier II junior A and Tier I (major) junior...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Taking it For Granted in the Net | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

Cornell Coach Lou-Reycroft came to Blair's house in Stoney Creek...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Taking it For Granted in the Net | 3/13/1986 | See Source »

Sanford Dornbusch, a sociology professor at Stanford, agrees that mainstream sociology was not at all well-defined. "One person's main-stream is another person's creek," he says...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Harvard Sociology: What Went Wrong? | 2/28/1986 | See Source »

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