Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s, Quebec was a troubled and troubling region, riven by internal frictions, feuding with Ottawa's federal government and openly threatening to secede from the country. Political turmoil was aggravated by economic crisis, as nationalism among the 80% of Quebecers whose first language is French drove out many English- speaking businesses and helped boost the unemployment rate to 18%. Today Quebec is at peace not only with Ottawa but with itself as well. Many parts of the province are already enjoying newfound prosperity; elsewhere, at least the beginnings of a recovery have taken hold. "Quebec," says the Montreal daily...
...rafts. Sixteen others, including four wounded sailors, were in the water, clinging to flotsam or still swimming. All were picked up. The survivors claimed that two of their crewmen were missing and that one had sped off in a motorized "Zodiac" speedboat. The Iran Ajr's captain, who spoke English, was among the wounded...
Lovell speculates reasonably, though conventionally, that much of Markham's adult adventuring was an attempt to find a man as admirable as her father. He was an English ex-army officer named Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck, who, separated from his wife, reared Beryl in Kenya when she was a child. It was from him that she learned horses and an extreme form of self-reliance...
...become a mathematician, like both of his parents. But as a student at Moscow University in the mid-1950s, he switched majors to study physics. "A physicist can still enjoy the beauty of mathematics and have a more intimate interaction with nature," he says. Sagdeyev also took up English, which he calls the "first necessity for a scientist." He passed along his appreciation of the language to his son and daughter, both computer scientists, and to his two small grandchildren...
...There is now compulsory schooling; the urbanpopulation is being much better educated; thereare special schools for math and sciences; andthere are even special schools where all theteaching is done in English or Japanese," Connorsaid...